Motvik, a four member mobile startup in Bangalore has launched a very interesting product called WWIGO (pronounced ‘vigo’). WWIGO stands for ‘Webcam Wherever I Go’ and it turns your Bluetooth enabled camera phone into a wireless webcam for use with your laptop or desktop. Motvik is led by Rajan, who needs no introduction to many amongst us, for he is a very familiar face on the startup/unconference circuits in Hyderabad & Bangalore.
WWIGO is essentially a software solution. It is a combination of PC & Mobile software. You have to download it from the website and install one component on the mobile, and the other on your PC. Once installed, the camera phone functions as a wireless webcam, using Bluetooth connectivity to transmit live video signals to your PC. The video can be used as an input into various PC applications- IM clients like Yahoo/Skype for video messaging, video capture; editing software like Windows Movie Maker; online video sharing applications like YouTube. The snapshot on the left shows how WWIGO works– it shows a visual captured from the mobile and then beamed onto the PC.
Since mobilephones have now become a 24X7 extension of your very being, WWIGO offers users an anywhere/anytime webcam in their pockets. The Bluetooth connectivity frees you from the constraints of a wired attachment to the PC/Laptop. Currently WWIGO is available on the Windows platform (XP & 2000) and Symbian Series 60 phones (6600, N Series etc). Support for other models and platforms are being added.
WWIGO is currently in private Alpha. They are looking for people to test their application and give them feedback, so in case anybody is game, write to rajan@motvik.com
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But this already has been done before (paid @ 12 $ for the s/w)
http://www.warelex.com/products/webcam/index.php
Whats the ROI here ?
@Amit,
Thanks for writing about wwigo & Motvik!
@Alex,
You are right few others have developed simillar products which includes mobiola and others like ateksoft, we want to differentiated focus on making the product more accessible and usable. Do stay tuned for more differentiating features as well.
Let me know what you are looking for in terms of RoI. My email id is rajan@motvik.com and we can discuss over email.
Cheers,
Rajan
Well ROI is Return of Investment. For anything to be sustainable in the long run there should be some kind of returns.
So how will you cover the costs incurred in the development and maintainance of the product.
Rajan,
Some pointers to future monetization strategy would certaily help.
Alex,
For an application like this, if it works and works really well without much hassles, thats a good point to start off with. In that sense Rajan is right that usability can be a differentiator.
Also, Warelex that you pointed out, is paid software, while WWIGO is free. So thats another difference.
Amit
@Alex,
@Amit/Alex,
We are strongly looking at a ‘flickr’ (‘freemium’) kind of monetization model. Hope that helps !!
Cheers,
Rajan
do we have a link to download the software?
hi
please tell me how to download this wwigo software.
I need it urgently…
i liked this software verymuch when i have seen this software working at CNBC now How can i download wwigo ? I have N70.
I am not able to download from to motvik
please tell at your earliest.
madhup
i tooooooo need the link…
why do they make a show in cnbc and then
the link is missing….
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please tell me how to download this wwigo software.
Hi,
i saw the promo of this in tech2 so i am very intrested i this so can u please send me the download link to me mail id
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yar cud ne 1 tell me d link from where i can download this software……
Hey! When will you open WWIGO for download.
Let us have a feel of your creation!!!!
need the link to download the software
@ bivas,aman, madhup, ragu , kapil, venkatesh, hitesh , shashi,
Sorry about the delay , you could now go to http://www.motvik.com and download wwigo.
Rajan
Check out SmartCam, released under GPL is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartcam. Currently tested on Nokia 6600, the project can grow to support Series 60 3rd edition phones.
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rajan thanx for initiating these sorts of product…we younger generation are keen to see this sort of development…cause we learn a lot form this….i also have N70 mobile from nokia…it says that nokia N60 is not compatible with wwigo…is it true…what could be the option iff……
rajan thanx for initiating these sorts of product…we younger generation are keen to see this sort of development…cause we learn a lot form this….i also have N70 mobile from nokia…it says that nokia N70 is not compatible with wwigo…is it true…what could be the option iff……
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