What is Logitech® Vid™?
Get into the details of what makes Vid special.
Seeing is believing
What Vid lets you do
Have you ever wanted to see someone, even when they were far away? Vid makes it easy using your webcam and Internet connection. You see and hear them. They see and hear you.
You can skip the screen names, the hassles, and the complicated settings and get right to smiling faces.
Everyone says easy
What makes Vid easy
We built it from the start to let you focus on your friends and family—not making you try to figure out software.
Logitech® Vid™ was created specifically for clear, simple video calling. There’s no text chat. No strangers calling you. No smiley faces made of parentheses. Just real smiling faces.
It’s easy because:
- It takes half the steps to set up than other major calling apps
- You add a friend using their email address—not a screen name search
- You make a video call simply by clicking on your friend’s picture
- It was built to work with your webcam
Me, You and Everyone
Who uses Vid
Vid is perfect for everyone who:
- Is looking for simplicity—either for themselves or the people they’d like to talk to
- Wants to see and hear family, friends or anyone else, even when they can’t be there in person
- Appreciates a clean, intuitive way to talk, built specifically for video calling
- Doesn’t want or need the extra features of more complicated software
- Has a high-speed Internet connection
- Don’t want to give up video or audio quality to get something easy to use
It’s all good
The webcams that work with Vid
Logitech Vid is free for anyone with any Logitech webcam, whether that webcam is brand new, or one you’ve had for a while.
As Logitech®, we believe that we’ve got a webcam that’s perfect for you. But let’s say you have a webcam from someone else, or a webcam built into your laptop—you can still use Vid.
If you don’t have a Logitech® webcam and you haven’t been invited by someone with a Logitech webcam, you’ll get 30 days to try Vid, fall in love with it, and treat yourself to one of our favorite webcams.
You can even use Vid without a webcam at all—if you’ve got a microphone or headset and don’t mind seeing your friends without being seen.
Our hidden agenda – Why we created Vid™
Even though we’re known for the quality of our webcams, we don’t rest on our reputation. So we’re still constantly working on the webcam experience—in video, in sound, and in usability.
But when we talked to people about what they liked—and didn’t like—about webcams, we saw the biggest opportunity wasn’t about the hardware, but the way people connected to one another with them.
So we made the way people made video calls easy—while still providing true-to-life video quality as good, if not better, than more complicated software.
We created Vid to make video calling better for you, from start to finish.
Playing nice
Compatibility with other networks
Logitech Vid is powered by the Logitech® SightSpeed network. Which gives you the ability to connect with people using services such as SightSpeed.
To keep things simple, Vid doesn’t currently connect with Windows Live Messenger™, AIM®, Yahoo! ® Messenger, or Skype™. But there’s nothing that would prevent you from using other IM and calling services in addition to Vid on the same computer.
What you’ll need
Minimum and recommended system requirements
You’ll need a high-speed internet connection with at least 256 kbps upload / download.
- You need a webcam if you want to be seen,
- To be heard, you need a webcam with a built-in mic, a headset, or an external microphone connected to your PC.
- To experience the full video-calling quality of Vid (30 frames per second at VGA resolution), people at both ends of the call need a webcam capable of VGA resolution video.
As for your computer:
PC : Vid works with Windows XP or Microsoft™ Vista. We recommend a CPU that’s 2.5GHz or faster.
Macintosh: Vid works with Tiger 10.4.11 or higher, Leopard 10.5.0 or higher, Safari 3.0 or newer and we recommend a G4 1GHz or faster processor. And of course, Vid can work with Intel Processors as well.
Other operating systems: Sorry we don’t have a version of Logitech® Vid for Linux.
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