This week, we're beginning to see the wide ranging impacts of some of the early iterations of augmented reality hardware and software.
Most augmented/mixed reality hardware still exists in the development stage, whether that's one of the more robust headsets or a high-powered smartphone. Most everything else isn't widely used or monetized. Snapchat, however, snuck in under the radar and created the foundation for the first social network to focus on augmented reality.
Is technology making us disconnected? Findings from a study conducted by YouGov hint that — for millennials — the answer is yes. The research found that nearly one in five US teens prefers to video chat their friends rather than spend time with them face-to-face.
Less than four months after Snapchat introduced its Snappables platform, Facebook has met the challenge with its own AR gaming feature that surpasses the originator.
Popular chat apps like Messenger allow us to communicate with friends and family across iOS and Android phones alike. However, that interconnectivity doesn't mean both apps are the same. While Facebook has made strides to close gaps between these two platforms, chat heads remain an exclusive feature for Android devices, and they let you keep Messenger threads close by.
Stay connected with your friends on Facebook, even when you're on your Playstation! Facebook Chat is one way you can stay in contact with your friends, or group chat with fans of a particular page. And now you can stay signed into to Facebook chat with your Playstation. Follow this easy to understand tutorial so you can use chat and your gaming console at the same time.
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to set up iChat to text, video or audio chat with friends. iChat is an application that's part of every new Mac. It lets you stay in touch with friends and family in fun innovative ways.
This video tutorial was created by SCEA for Sony PlayStation fans and readers on how to use their PS3. Learn how to start a video chat on your PS3. Once you learn the ease of video chatting on your PlayStation 3, you won't be able to stop.
Add a chat program to your website and allow the logged in users to talk to each other! You can write this program using Adobe Flash CS3, PHP and MySQL. This tutorial shows you how to write your own Flash chat program incorporating all three systems.
One of the more competitive aspects to chat apps these days is customizability. It seems every messenger wants to offer the largest number of options for users to make the app feel like a truly personal experience. Telegram is no stranger to this customizability, offering tools where you can select backgrounds and chat bubble colors.
In this video we learn how to use iChat in Mac OS X. He explains to us that iChat allows us to chat with any person on our buddy list. He explains clearly about icons next to a person's name such as a camera which shows you can have a video chat with that person. Next he explains how to change your status, such as, whether you are available to chat or not. He then goes on to explain how to create your own buddy icon which is what people will see when they are chatting with you. You can create...
HO TouchSmart is a all-in-one PC with many essential features. You can video chat using your HP TouchSmart PC. Note that you will need a internet connection to use the video chat feature. There are lots of messengers available on the net like Windows Live messenger, Yahoo messenger, AOL and others. You will need to have a messenger to chat with an other person using the same messenger. So first go to the respective websites and download the required messenger. Install the messenger as shown i...
Video chatting over the Internet is an inexpensive way to keep in touch with your family and friends. This video will show you how to set up web video chat.
Telegram routinely boasts about its secure messaging for truly private conversations between two parties. However, default cloud chats in Telegram are only encrypted between client and server, not client and client, which means you have to be a little proactive in making sure your private conversations on Telegram are really private.
The app that started as simply a photo-sharing social media platform has expanded to encompass so much more than that. Between live videos, stories, chat, and animated stickers, Instagram is more than the sum of its pictures. Now, there's a new feature to add to that list for Android and iOS — video and audio calls.
The front camera on the Droid Bionic from Motorola is a perfect match for the Google Talk application provided with the Android smartphone. Using the Verizon Wireless 4G connection, you can stream video and voice to friends and family members on the go. This guide by Motorola demonstrates how to video chat on the Bionic.
A Facebook profile page shows up explaining the steps on how to get chat history of a friend on Facebook. It explains that you need to go to the profile of the person you would like to find chat history with. It then explains steps on how you can copy there Facebook ID. Once you have accessed that he provides you with a JavaScript code to use to pull up chat history. He gives you step by step examples explaining how to set up the ID and apply it to the JavaScript coding. Once that has been es...
In this tutorial, you are shown very simple steps to put live chat option on your website. In this video web designer Jeff shows you how to put free Yahoo live chat on your website in very easy steps. This tutorial will change your website look more effective and useful. This tutorial shown in very detailed explanation about creating live chat box on your website. He shows a live demo creating professional chat box on your website, but also shows that you can create your live chat box per you...
In this Facebook tutorial you will learn how to how to hack Facebook chat in order to browse other pages while still chatting. In just a few moments, you'll be on the road to surfing the interweb & chatting simultaneously.
If you want to get your Facebook chat history, here's a way to do it, even if your friends aren't currently online. This video walks you through the steps to recover chat that you previously had, even with friends who are currently offline. Click here for more details.
Are you a chat fanatic? Do you have a website with chat functionality built in? Have you seen other people with chat emoticons that you don't have? It's possible they designed their own emoticons and you can too! This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to design custom emoticons easily in Photoshop.
There's a fine line between order and chaos in group chats. With all the cross-talk, threads can easily devolve into a random mess that has nothing to do with the original discussion topic. WhatsApp group chats certainly aren't immune to this problem, but they've recently taken a step in the right direction.
Facebook is a wonderful website where you can connect and keep up to date with your friends. Facebook has some useful features like chat. Facebook chat can be used to chat in live with your online friends. The chat also supports smileys. Using different character combination you can create different smileys. To create the happy smiley type :). To create sad smiley use :(. Use :P to show a funny smiley. These are the basic smileys. There are many more smileys present like the one showing teeth...
This is a tutorial on how to clear your Skype call history and chat history. The option for clearing call and chat history is difficult to find in Skype. To begin, click on Tools and select Options from the Menu. In the pop up box, click on the Privacy button. By showing Advanced Options, you will be able to access the button which enables you to clear your call and chat history. Please note that when you click the Clear History button, you will not only delete your call and chat history, but...
If you already own a Canon High-def digital SLR, you can set it up as a virtual webcam. This will allow you to record video podcasts or chat on Skype. You'll also need the CamTwist software and the Canon EOS utility (available from your install CD).
Group chats in Facebook Messenger can devolve into outright noise pollution as people chit chat randomly and bombard you with distracting notifications. Unfortunately, leaving the group outright alerts everyone inside, so if you want to get out of the thread unnoticed, what exactly can you do?
You're in constant communication with your friends and family. The only issue? Nobody uses the same app. Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp — you have contacts spanning all three, and the resulting balancing-act to keep in touch can be overwhelming. That's why Facebook — who owns all three apps — is coming out with a way to call and message friends across all three platforms from one place.
Check out this helpful video to learn how to install Skype mobile video chat on your HTC Thunderbolt. First, download the file here then follow all of the instructions to get your Android smartphone running Skype video chat on Wi-fi and 4G.
Are you playing Minecraft on a Mac? Would you like more functions and better performance from chat? Check out this video, you'll need to download Modloader and improved chat. You'll be able to bind keys, so that your most used commands are only a single keystroke away!
At first glance Facebook chat may seem like a pretty simple application, but there are actually some more complicated things you can do with it. Learn how to customize your chat experience by changing the font and adding smileys with this video. Need to make a point? Then bold your font. You can even add a little shark smiley for emphasis!
Group chats on WhatsApp are great for getting your friends all in one place, but the bigger the group, the more notifications you'll probably get. Needless to say, it can get annoying real quick. You can mute notifications for all your conversations, but that's not practical if some are important. However, there is an option to mute group chats themselves and even leave them when needed.
For years, Skype has been synonymous with video calling and messaging. However, as the industry moved toward encryption and privacy, Skype usage was discouraged by experts due to its murky encryption. To combat this, Skype has introduced true end-to-end encryption.
If you're looking to keep your conversations private, look no further than Telegram. Its cloud-based chats are secure and its optional end-to-end encrypted chats even more so, but you can't really prevent someone in the conversation from sharing your messages. However, you can lessen that chance by taking back your messages, deleting them for both you and the other end of the discussion.
In Telegram — as with all instant-messaging apps — threads and conversations can pile up quickly. But you don't need to stare at all of your open chats on the main screen of the Android and iOS app. Instead, you can archive any conversation you like, keeping your main chats view relevant to your day-to-day communications without needing to delete any for good.
Group chats in WhatsApp are great for communicating with multiple people at once, but that can be a blessing and a curse — any message you send will be seen by everyone, and that's not always ideal. Thankfully, there's a new feature that lets you respond to group messages privately.
While some of our group chats should probably remain private and closed off, others will only get better with more people. Whether you're organizing an event and need a headcount or you want to share a funny YouTube video with a large crowd, you can add all the friends you wish to on Facebook Messenger by sending them a unique link.
ModiFace, the makers of Sephora's Virtual Artist app which allows users to try on multiple different combinations of makeup through augmented reality, has just bumped up its augmented reality strategy. The company is now including a live-stream option for all those personal makeup trials you've been secretly admiring from the comfort of your own phone.
Snapchat began rolling out a massive update on March 29th, dubbed Chat 2.0, that gives users a plethora of new features, basically transforming Snapchat into an all-purpose messaging app.
Fring is an app availble through the Apple store which will let you use your iPhone 4 to conduct FaceTime video chats over 3G. You can also use Skype or other chat programs with Fring. Make sure you pay attention to how much data you're using, it's easy to go over!
Some users are experiencing difficulties using the MSS picture messaging and FaceTime voice chat features on their jailbroken iPhone 4. This tutorial shows you an easy fix after jailbreaking your phone - all you need to do is go into Cydia and upgrade all packages in order to regain your features.
