Polycom RealPresence Mobile Enables Conferences Through Tablets

Video conferencing is something that took a few leaps during the past couple of years, and Polycom believes the sector is ready to leap again, all the way into tablets.

Setting up video conferences may have been hard a few years ago, but bandwidth has evolved so much that HD video streaming is becoming commonplace.

In other words, communicating through voice and video at the same time is gaining ground and, more importantly, is cheaper to implement than before too.

Polycom figured it may as well add its two cents to the deal, cents that might turn out to be big and shiny.

What it did was develop the RealPresence Mobile, an HD video collaboration tool that lets one join desktop or conference video meetings on a tablet, all in high-definition too (HD).

“RealPresence Mobile is a significant step toward achieving our vision to make it possible for millions of people to use video collaboration as their preferred method of communicating – easily, reliably, and securely – no matter what network, carrier, protocol, application, or device they use,” said Andy Miller, president and CEO of Polycom.

“I've met with a hundred customers the past few months, and nearly every executive I talk with is looking to embrace mobility and tablets to improve business productivity. Customers who have seen our mobile applications running on Apple, Motorola, and Samsung tablets are truly inspired by the possibilities Polycom is enabling by extending video collaboration beyond the traditional boundaries of the conference room and desktop.”

Not only enterprise users, but also people from health care, education, manufacturing and government occupations can benefit from the new software.

So far, RealPresence Mobile is known to work with the Apple iPad 2, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (banned as it is, again) and Motorola XOOM (more will be added as time passes).