Google continues to roll out the new features for Gmail by adding free video conferencing.

It was announced today that Gmail can now provide you with free video conferencing by simply installing a video conferencing file which you can find here.  The service is completely free and supports formats such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264 so that it is compatible with third-party applications.  You can check out a short video about the new feature.

As we said, the service is completely free, and they are certainly making it more and more difficult to ever want to leave your Gmail window to do anything else. Now if they could just get the Gmail SMS feature to work.