Vidyo to show off mobile-to-mobile videoconferencing at CES

Vidyo will demonstrate today an Internet videoconference among six types of mobile devices made by multiple manufacturers in an effort to show how flexible its core VidyoConferencing platform can be for creating business meetings among personal devices.

The demonstration at the Showstoppers event at CES in Las Vegas will link an iPhone 4, an iPad, a MacBook, a Samsung Galaxy tablet, a conventional PC laptop and a Google Nexus S running the latest version of the Android mobile platform, Gingerbread.

The company is showing that any mobile device capable of supporting video over a Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G Internet connection can participate in a videoconference with disparate other devices. The client software and Vidyo router mediate the optimal picture quality supported by each device and the characteristics of its Internet connection.

Software developer's kit

Using a software developer's kit, the client can be tweaked to be compatible with new devices relatively quickly. For instance, the Google Nexus S smartphone was available just last month, Vidyo says.