There's no shortage of group vide chat services available, and that number increased by one this week as mobile VoIP provider fring threw its hat into the ring with an offering that's chasing the heels of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Hangouts.
There is a twist though (isn't there always?), and it's pretty cool. Fring allows users to organize their group chats around trending topics of interest.
Want to debate the merits of this weekend's big college football rivalry game between Notre Dame and Michigan (being played under the lights in Ann Arbor), or pooh-pooh the latest bad line call at the U.S. Open? Fring has you covered.
In Playgrounds, fring users actively engage in four-way video discussions either by browsing a list of open Playgrounds or by creating their own video discussions about what is important to them. Fring users can jump into Playgrounds with other fring users from devices running Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS or Google's Android.
"Playground video chat empowers users to video and voice their opinions about things that matter to them. We let users do more than simply 'follow' their interests. Now they can actively engage with others via video chat, instead of waiting for character-constrained updates or time delayed posts," says Avi Shechter, chief executive and co-founder of fring.
Group video chat, and video chat in specific, has seen pretty aggressive uptake recently, but the jury is still out whether consumers would use it if it were anything but a free service.
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