founder s milton chen key people milton chen ceo william perry board of directors james gibbons board of directors terry winograd board of advisors pat hanrahan board of advisors david kelley board of advisors james davis board of advisors website www.vsee.com type of site videoconferencing vsee is a proprietary low bandwidth group video chat and screen sharing software tool . it came out of a stanford university phd project addressing the problem of making virtual teamwork easy and conveying trust over video . 1 2 the service allows multiple users in various locations to communicate in real time by video and audio . its interface is able to concurrently display video faces and allow users annotate on shared screen content . vsee sends video at rates as low as 50 kbit s and is capable of real time video communication over 3g cellular networks . 3 vsee is based in sunnyvale california with remote staff located worldwide . contents 1 origins and notable dates 2 features and design 3 see also 4 references 5 external links origins and notable dates edit vsee lab llc was founded by dr. milton chen . vsee came out of his doctoral studies at stanford university where he focused his work on video communication and the psychology of teamwork . his thesis conveying conversational cues through video . 4 addresses both the psychological and technical aspects of video communications . vsee became a c corporation in 2008 . in 2008 vsee lab inc. was incorporated 5 in 2008 vsee also received investment funding from in q tel 6 and an award grant from the national science foundation nsf small business innovation research sbir program . 7 in 2010 salesforce invested in vsee . 8 in 2011 vsee pushed out its mac client . 9 in 2012 vsee released secure instant messaging . it was also approved by us congress for use behind their firewall . 10 vsee board of directors include former defense secretary william perry former stanford university dean of engineering james gibbons and jingle video for rtp co author 11 milton chen . its board of advisors include terry winograd pat hanrahan david kelley and james davis . according to the company its customers include ibm shell kaiser permanente the navy seals and us congress 10 and its users include well knowns such as angelina jolie 12 mandy moore 13 and linkin park . 14 investors include in q tel and salesforce.com . features and design edit vsee sends and receives high quality video over consumer grade networks using software . 3 vsee uses a managed peer to peer architecture similar to skype . however a server is used for address lookup and for administrative purposes . data being sent and received among clients does not pass through the server . this data is encrypted using fips 140 2 . 15 vsee also uses a proprietary network sensing algorithm that adapts to network conditions allowing it to deliver video over very low bandwidths and with minimal impact to a network . 3 vsee supports the following features group video chat up to 15 20 people screen sharing with annotation file sharing group and private chat during video chat 16 stand alone instant messaging auxiliary camera support remote camera control see also edit skype oovoo google hangouts collaborative software web conferencing list of collaborative software list of video telecommunication services and product brands references edit vsee offers the best group video conferencing tool for free review . tru voip buzz . retrieved 7 oct 2012 . lu yue ; yong zhao ; fernando kuipers ; piet van mieghem 2010 . measurement study of multi party video conferencing pdf . retrieved 2 oct 2012 . a b c locatis craig ; deborah rilliamson ; james sterret ; isabel detzler ; michael ackerman december 2011 . video medical interpretation over 3g cellular networks a feasibility study . telemedicine and e health . 17 10 2 . doi 10.1089 tmj .2011.0084 . pmid 22011055 . chen milton 2003 . conveying conversational cues through video pdf . stanford phd thesis paper . crunch base vsee . crunch base . retrieved 9 oct 2012 . vsee s video conferencing solutions arrive in europe . tech crunch . retrieved 8 oct 2012 . keeping an eye on the inauguration . national science foundation . retrieved 6 oct 2012 . exclusive salesforce invests in video messaging startup and skype rival vsee . tech crunch . retrieved 9 oct 2012 . vsee launches secure group video chat for mac today . retrieved 9 oct 2012 . a b siegelbaum debbie . house offers new video teleconferencing service for members staff . the hill . retrieved 5 oct 2012 . jingle video for rtp . retrieved 4 june 2008 . the story behind world refugee day live . refugee day live . retrieved 7 oct 2012 . vsee ustream facebook and mandy moore fight malaria . business wire . retrieved 9 oct 2012 . vsee enables haiti today haiti tomorrow a facebook town hall featuring linkin park and un secretary general ban ki moon . reuters . retrieved 9 oct 2012 . vsee security . retrieved 1 oct 2012 . secure and simple video conferencing . retrieved 10 oct 2012 . external links edit vsee website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vsee & oldid 736889938 categories teleconferencingvoip softwarefreewareweb conferencingvideotelephonysoftware companies based in californiasoftware companies based in the san francisco bay areatechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areacompanies based in sunnyvale california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 august 2016 at 14 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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