WebRTC Weekly Issue #247 - October 24, 2018

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

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Reading

Live Broadcasting Tech & Trends in 2018  sponsored 
Explore the history of live broadcasting, and it’s current trends and opportunities in the industry.

Picture-in-Picture now enabled by default in Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux (Android Police)
Makes one wonder how this affects WebRTC applications.

Technical

PSA: Unified Plan M71 Experiment; M72 Target – Applications May Break! Please Update Your Code (discuss-webrtc)
Another Chrome release. Another real potential for broken applications – make sure you’re ready.

How Zoom’s web client avoids using WebRTC (webrtcHacks)
WebSocket and WebAssembly. An interesting approach.

Jitsi at IIT-RTC 2018 – Cost Optimizing & P2P4121 (Jitsi)
Important videos if you’re interested in SFU architectures.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Uber adds VoIP calling option to its app (Engadget)
It is WebRTC based if you had any doubts.

Releases

Checkout the new HELLO2:  sponsored 
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