Last year, Google added voice and video chat features to Gmail Chat, which happens to be the web version of Google Talk. Well, it seems that Google plans of improving and enhancing the audio and video chat capabilities. From what we hear Google will be bringing video and audio conferencing for Gmail Chat and possibly bring those features to other apps as well, as it has done in the past. (For e.g. bringing voice and video chat to iGoogle and Orkut).

This is the statement made by Rishi Chandra, Google Apps product manager, that led us to the above mentioned news:

This [current Gmail capability] is the first step in a much broader set of features we hope to roll out over the next six to 12 months around video [and voice] chat capabilities. It’s a great opportunity for us to push that space along.

Currently, Gmail Talk offers one-to-one video and audio based communication, but all this is expected to change in the next 6-12 months.

A point to ponder over here is, will Google add the video and voice conferencing feature to Orkut and will that challenge Facebook’s domination in the social network arena?. Please share your thoughts on this matter with us.