With this Online service you can invite your virtual team to “share” your desktop & start creating things together as if you’re gathered around the same machine, but with each member having control over a cursor. Each user can interact with your apps & data in real time.
The USE together collaborative screen sharing solution was originally developed for health care professionals by OPEXMedia, a France-based development company, together with the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. It was used to comment images & get advice from colleagues in real time. Since then it’s been released for a public Beta in which you can participate for free.
Only the initiator of a working session or group get together needs to install an app on their machine. Then guests can join on that screen as long as they have a web browser supporting the WebRTC standard without any additional software or plugins needed.
USE together lets you share any app running on your screen, seamlessly making it multi-user ready. This means that you’ll need much less meeting setup & coordination. Your Online collaboration sessions will be more productive as you remotely work & progress together for virtually anywhere.
Here’s a video:
Other other features of USE Together are:
- Reliability – it adapts itself to varying network conditions negotiating multiple media types & endpoints & efficiently using bandwidth
- Device independence – only the meeting initiator needs to be on a Windows PC, all other participants can join from a browser on virtually any device
- Low latency – use of latest gen video encoding tech means that it’s really fast even on slow connections, close to native device usage speeds
- Privacy-aware – an encrypted peer-to-peer connection between collaborators encases a ‘live’ stream of your desktop so no data can be intercepted
You can download USE Together for 64 Bit Windows here. Mac & Linux versions are in the works & will also soon be available. Currently only Chrome or Firefox browsers are supported to use the Beta release & up to 3 users can share the screen simultaneously.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: USE together
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