Desi video conferencing app ‘Lauk’ for educators announced

Senior Journalist turned entrepreneur Anuranjan Jha is coming up with ‘Lauk Classroom’ a video conferencing and web streaming platform for educators.

Jha said the platform is a desi alternative for educators looking for platforms for e-education. He added that the homegrown video conferencing app will serve individual teachers to large organisations.

Features

Lauk Classroom is a part of 3 different solutions that Jha’s company Park Media Private Limited is offering. The other two are ‘Lauk’ a general video conferencing platform and ‘Lauk Studio’ for live streaming, webinars, and other services. In a much respite to the privacy concerns raised after Zoom’s reportedly compromised interface in terms of privacy, Jha claimed the app comes with an ‘end-to-end encryption’ essential feature

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Lauk offers optional password protection on each call, multi-device login support. The users, especially the ones working from Home, for enhanced collaboration with colleagues can share the screen with the other side(s).

Lauk will be launched in phases, and will also provide API’s for other Indian developers so they can develop their own Video Conferencing applications harnessing lauk’s infrastructure and technology. said Varun Gupta who is co-founder and master in ground breaking video streaming technologies. 

Pricing

Jha said, Lauk’s Subscription will range from Rs 250 to Rs 1500 per user per month with a special discounted packages for schools, colleges and other educational institutions.

The new normal

Travel restrictions and other measures imposed due to Coronavirus have made web applications quite popular. With schools and colleges shut, business for video conferencing apps is bound to grow. Presently, the majority of the non-essential service sector manpower is working from home. Many business establishments are heavily reliant on these applications to coordinate their workforce and conduct meetings.