Google Wave launches and 6rounds is its only video chat extension

For those of you don’t yet know, Google Wave is Google’s latest and greatest product. It has chosen 6rounds to be one of their very first 6 applications and its only video chat extension for the launch, which is scheduled for September, 30th.

So what is a Wave? According to Google, a “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is a product, a platform, and a protocol.

To really understand what it is you can watch their 80 minutes demo from May, 2009.
But if you’re running out of time…

Here’s the basic experience briefly:

In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly. It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is well suited for quick pings as well as persistent content — it’s equal parts collaboration and communication. You can use “playback” to rewind the wave to see how it evolved. You can even publish a wave to a blog or website, where the content will update instantly as the wave changes.

So how does 6rounds fit in?

Within a Wave, you can insert our 6rounds extension and invite your friends to join you in the wave. You take a seat and wait for someone to sit opposite to you. 6rounds extension, allows Wave users to have fun and interactive video chats with their Wave friends and have the same shared experiences as 6rounds users do. Just like in 6rounds, chat partners can enjoy and share together live and in real-time: from watching videos, playing real-time games, listening to music, to co-facebooking or youtubing and beyond. Also they can enjoy the same fun gifts, effects and skins in their video chat experience.

However, the Google Wave gadget will have some extra wavy aspects such as sharing snapshots taken within a round to the other people in the wave and playbacks of what actions took place. Check out our full press release about the Google Wave and 6rounds cooperation and watch the short demo for the extension (and yes, that is me over there!):