WebRTC Weekly Issue #553 - September 11, 2024

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Reading

An Update on How We’re Building Safe and Secure Third-Party Chats for Users in Europe (Meta)
Voice and video calling interoperability from 2027. Likely by using WebRTC as the standard.

Visionular and Ant Media Announce Strategic Collaboration to Revolutionize Live Streaming and Video Compression (Press release)
Ant Media can now use Visionlunar’s commercial video encoders.

Technical

WebRTC Live is a monthly webinar series with industry guests brought to you by WebRTC.ventures (sponsored)
Host Arin Sime will broadcast live from the RTC.on conference in Poland on September 12, featuring short discussions with several of the speakers.

GStreamer and WebRTC HTTP signalling (Arun Raghavan)
Now with WHIP/WHEP support

Quickstart: Add Video Chat to Vision Pro with Agora (Agora.io)
Agora with a walkthrough of their APIs on an Apple Vision Pro.

The Latency Puzzle: Cracking the Code for Real-Time Applications (WebRTC.ventures)
An overview of latency and its various aspects in our domain.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Boom’s macOS camera app lets you customize your video call appearance (TechCrunch)
An interesting concept, similar to mmhmm to some extent.

ZipRecruiter’s new tool will quickly match and schedule an intro call with potential candidates (TechCrunch)
The video calls also take place on the platform itself.

Releases

Elixir WebRTC — batteries included WebRTC implementation for the Elixir ecosystem (Software Mansion)
Progress report of the Elixir implementation of WebRTC.

Tagged versions 1.2.4 (multistream) and 0.14.4 (legacy) (Janus)
New Janus releases.

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