Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
Reading
Watch the first videoconference, which took place 50 years ago today (Fast Company)
A piece of history.
Why Your Laptop Webcam Is Still a Piece of Junk (OneZero)
I wonder how 2021 laptops will look like when it come to webcam quality.
H.266/VVC brings video transmission to new speed (Fraunhofer HHI)
Just what we needed! Another video codec to add more confusion.
Technical
Set up STUN/TURN server for the video chat app (Takaaki Ota)
Some good resources around coturn lately.
Use Cases and Customer Wins
India’s richest man takes on Zoom (TechCrunch)
They should have designed their own unique UI.
DocuSign acquires Liveoak Technologies for $38M for online notarization (TechCrunch)
Online notarization is another domain thriving due to the pandemic.
Dating app S’More adds blurred video calling and launches in LA (TechCrunch)
First two minutes of a video call are blurry.
Releases
OpenVidu 2.15.0: Autoscaling (OpenVidu)
OpenVidu’s latest release. There’s more to it than the autoscaling feature. Check it out.
Kraken: High Performance WebRTC SFU (Cedric Fung)
Nothing like good old developer-NIH to create another open source project.
From our own posts
None this week