HD announced on Hangouts, powered by the VP8 codec: stakes and opportunity.

The workshops, R&D, implementations (Chrome en Firefox) and innovations on and around the WebRTC technology ,via your browser are going on, and the results are  progressively very exciting.   

In this dynamic, Google+ is rolling out HD on Hangouts, powered by the VP8 codec,
this means hangout face to face to face in HD.
Connectikpeople may recall that, HD hangouts require an HD-capable webcam, more bandwidth and more processing power than standard definition.