videocall

English

Noun

videocall (plural videocalls)

1. Alternative form of video call.
   • 1993, Rosalyn Moran, The electronic home: social and spatial aspects:

     The possibility of having the private sphere invaded by a videocall may change the perception of the home as a safe, private, "back stage" area and result in maintenance of a public persona in the home […]

   • 2003, Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, London Calling: How Mobile Technologies Can Transform a City, page 10:

     Once simple handsets, now owned by 75 per cent of Britons, are undergoing a metamorphosis into a sophisticated wireless device which enables users to make videocalls […]

   • 2009, Vic Callaghan, Achilles Kameas, Intelligent Environments 2009, page 441:

     When he sits on the sofa in front of the television the call is transferred on the screen and audio system (automatically or after vocal/GUI/gesture confirmation depending on the active profile) becoming potentially also a videocall […]