Vidyo Brings Video Chat to Nintendo Wii U Console

Personal telepresence solution provider Vidyo has announced that its software platform will enable Wii U Chat, a video communication service that is included with every Nintendo Wii U console. The announcement was made today, Nov. 19.

Vidyo’s open platform allows game developers to embed video chat into their games.

“Through this collaboration, we’ll be adding Wii U consoles to the pool of Vidyo enabled systems which will build critical mass around Vidyo’s scalable architecture and software platform,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder at Vidyo.

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The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, flexible and can be customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs.

The VidyoRouter is based on the company’s patented Adaptive Video Layering architecture and leverages the standard based Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology.

Photo courtesy: Vidyo

Rakesh Raman is a national award-winning journalist and founder of the humanitarian organization RMN Foundation. With over 30 years of experience in technology management and editorial research, he serves as a Country Expert for India with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project (University of Gothenburg). Formerly an edit-page tech columnist for The Financial Express and a digital media expert for the United Nations (UNIDO), Rakesh specializes in the intersection of AI, governance, and human rights. For the past 15 years, he has managed the Raman Media Network (RMN), a global news service including rmndigital.com and rmnnews.com. His investigative work includes forensic research reports on election integrity and corruption, archived as open-access publications on Zenodo. As an AI and transformative technology expert, he develops frameworks for Agentic AI in e-governance and authored the AI for Kids Picture Book. His work is recognized by international bodies like Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for its focus on transparency and democratic accountability.

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