Is Video Chatting Here to Stay?

High (or even adequate) quality internet connections need to be in place at all call-connections to really be useful. In the USA today that is not always possible. Otherwise choppy pixilated results make communications difficult.

As a frequent user, I think video is absolutely the way people will communicate in the future. Try and find a phone or any smart device sold today that doesn't have a camera in it. It's just a matter of band width and/or compression technology getting better. Users will prefer just leaving a video message over texting any day. Just need the apps to make it as easy and quick. Just my opinion but I'm an old geezer.

I'd say biggest hurdle is giving my wife sufficient warning so she can go fix her hair and makeup. Maybe an "Auto-Blur" feature or face recognition/photo chopping in real time to "Fix" the image.

I have to agree with you, I'm also a frequent user of video chat. And Mag also has a good point about "choppy pixelated" video. I think as this technology refines itself things will only get better and cheaper. I know now that my life, growing up in the '60's was HeΓΓ!! Don't know how I ever survived. Oh, wait, maybe that's why we were smoking pot and expanding on ideas of this new technologies