When checking 'About This Mac' from the Mac OS X  menu > More Info. The feature was available for free in the beta version of Skype 5 and required a Premium subscription when it officially debuted in the shipping version.Some users, after upgrading their Mac OS to Snow Leopard, have lost functionality with their iSight built-in camera. Much like Google Hangouts, Skype video calling allows customers to hold a video conference with a group of other Skype users who can talk using the webcams on their devices. Group video calling debuted on the Mac platform with Skype 5 in early 2011. And, in the future, we’ll be enabling group video calling for all our users across more platforms – at no cost. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re making group video calling free – for all users on these platforms. For the last few years, we’ve offered group video calling to Premium users on Windows desktop and Mac and more recently Xbox One. While Skype is known for one to one video calling, we know it’s also essential to connect with the groups of people who matter most, whether friends, family or colleagues. Skype is proud that, since our beginning, we’ve created opportunities for people to communicate freely and easily, no matter where they are from keeping in touch with remote family members or calling home when traveling to chatting daily with your close circles of friends. Now, group video calling will be accessible for free to anyone on those platforms, with support for additional devices coming at a later date. The feature was introduced in 2010 and was made available to Premium users on a Windows desktop, Mac and the Xbox One. Skype today announced that it is making its group video calling feature free for select users.

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