WebRTC Weekly Issue #239 - August 29, 2018

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

Reading

2nd Annual Embedded Video Communication Report sponsored
If you haven’t filled out the survey yet, hurry! We will be closing up the polling soon.

Live Broadcasting vs Live Streaming (Agora)
For Agora, this is about active vs passive.

What Does Chad Hart Expect from the Future of RTC? (callstats.io)
callstats.io starts a series of interviews with people in the WebRTC industry. Chad Hart is first in line.

Technical

WebRTC M69 Release Notes (discuss-webrtc)
Lots of updates in this upcoming release.

Try out getDisplayMedia() (discuss-webrtc)
Extension-less screen sharing on its way to Chrome.

VR Video Calling with WebRTC and WebVR (webrtcHacks)
Dan Jenkins tinkers with WebRTC and WebVR.

Don’t Shoot Messenger (EFF)
Don’t know if I should laugh or cry. Setting Messenger apart from the rest of the pack makes no sense. Especially considering the scenarios where government force Facebook (as if they can’t do the same for everyone else).

PSA: adapter.js github repository is moving (discuss-webrtc)
adapter.js moved from the official webrtc repo to the webrtcHacks one.

GSoC 2018 Results (Jitsi)
Local audio recording seems interesting.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Bringing Live Video Chat to Mobile Games sponsored
Agora.io Partners With Bunch To Bring Live Video Chat To Popular Mobile Games!

Releases

CrossBrowserTesting Product Update: What’s New and What’s Coming Up (CrossBrowserTesting)
The latest release now offers better support for WebRTC.

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