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I am visiting Scotland to be with my grandchildren for the summer holidays.

Back in Singapore, the extended family clan plans a gathering to mark the 210 birthday of our patriach Mr Tan Tock Seng.

We have more than 1200 members on our family tree database:

More than 120 attended the week long activities, beginning with a big dinner.

I had the forsight to plan attending by ooVoo!: Me on my MacBook (Mac)
At the dinner I got one of them to run ooVoo on his computer: (PC)

Me from glasgow, one family member from Australia and one from USA joined in:

Audio/video was good where there was fast internet connection:
the one that had a slower connection had patchy audio/vidio

The other two family members attended for 1 hour then had to go to work/ go to bed.

It was 1 pm for me in UK so I could stay for 4 hours and I did.

Several of the diners came to chat with me.

All in all it was AMAZING:
thanks ooVoo!

Hi limsumin

I work in marketing at ooVoo and was so pleased to read your post. Wow! Simply amazing -- and exactly what we love about ooVoo: connecting friends and family from around the world so they can see and "be" with each other. I'd love to know more about your reunion. Did the person on the PC record any of it? Our new Mac version is coming out in the next couple of weeks and that version will have recording of video calls just as the PC version does today.

If you want to add me to your contact list, feel free to ooVoo me. My ooVoo ID is: oovooLisa

Best,

Lisa

 

 

 

Lisa, yes I believe that some footage was recorded of the ooVoo video link on a PC by Darrell the Mac Beta version has a record function now since we are now connected, does this forum have an email alert when replies are posted to one's messages? Su Min

Hi Su, yes, there is an option to see replies to your posts. If you click on the "Options" tab of the post (before you send it) one of the options is "Email me replies to this post."

I have a wmv file 20MB of that meeting : do you want to see it?

Would love to - thanks Lim. My ooVoo ID is philiprobertson, once you add me as a contact we'll be able to exchange files of upto 25mb so we should be able to transfer the file once we connect on ooVoo.

See you you soon.

Thanks,

Philip

hi

 

 

Hello dear new friend,
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As is my pleassure to contact you after viewing your profile today at (forum.oovoo.com)which really interest me in having communication with you .
If you will have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better and see what happened in future.
I will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication and to know all about each other,here is my email (favour_good36@yahoo.com) i will be waiting to hearing from you as soon as you receive this mail. I wish you all the best for your day.Bye and take a good care of yourself,have a nice day.(Remember the distance,colour or age does not matter but love and understanding matters a lot in life)
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I have a good experience:

I visited my grandparents (both in their mid 90's) at their assisted living home in PA, USA. They cannot travel at all so they have to rely on family coming to see them. My family lives in five different states so the option of one of us visiting is rare and practically impossible that you would see the WHOLE family ever!

SO, I visted them becuase I live the closest and I set up the assisted living home's entertainment room. I connected my computer to speakers, a massive projecter screen, and positioned the camera so that my grandparents could see the screen and look into the camera. I gave them each a microphone too. I tried to explain about the Internet and what was going to happen with the computer and the video camera, but they really could not understand. I had previously scheduled a meeting with all of my family members (and I upgraded my accout to fit more than 3 screens). When the time came, I took my grandparents down to the entertainment room and let the magic happen!

 I cannot begin to describe the sheer joy, confusion, and absolute amazement that ensued. My grandparents, for the first time in 10 years, could SEE and talk to ALL of my family members. My grandma kept forgetting they could see and hear her too, as she wold make some side comments to me and my grandpa ("Oh, Mike, doesn't he look a little bit bigger." "Oh, my Nick has quite a bit of hair on his face."). We chatted for about 15 min. and  the only words that came from my Grandma's mouth were "Oh my God, Oh my God. All of them. Everyone. They're real. Oh my God. They're in the room with us!" As tears rolled down her face, she exclaimed that this was the best experience of her entire life! They were in complete awe of the situation. Not only that, but my entire family was crying because of how happy my grandma and grandpa were to see everyone. The moment of seeing and communicating to my whole family was so intense, she needed me to get an extra oxygen tank.

I don't have a recording of the encounter, but I plan to visit again in the next 3 weeks. My sister just had the first grandchild in our family, so I plan on doing another OoVoo call when I visit my grandparents again. This time I will have the oxygen prepared and record the meeting so you can witness the sheer joy, gratitude, and awe of our next encounter.

Also, I am trying to work with the assisted living community's activities director to have an Video Conference training day, so more residents can connect with their children and grandchildren.