WebRTC Weekly Issue #282 - July 3, 2019

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

Reading

From Super Resolution to Ultra-Zero Latency Channel Switching: See Highlights of the AllThingsRTC Conference (Agora.io)
A short summary of the AllThingsRTC conference that took place last week.

Teeworlds Web: serverless unofficial version WebAssembly + WebRTC (Teeworlds)
Games using WebRTC as a P2P communications protocol.

Ch-ch-ch-changes: The formation of Talky, inc. and a new CEO for &yet (&yet)
Talky is spun out of &yet.

Technical

WebRTC M76 Release Notes (discuss-webrtc)
Working towards getStats() migration.

Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 86 (WebKit)
Minor improvements in WebRTC support.

Facial Recognition with NodeJS, ReactsJS and Javascript (Open-source Hack’s)
getUserMedia() gets used to connect web apps to computer vision.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Nextcloud introduces collaborative rich text editor (Nextcloud)
It offers video calling while collaborating. I wonder if the collaboration is done via a data channel or a websocket.

Rave Mobile Safety unveils support for live video streaming (Press release)
Emergency services are starting to take note of WebRTC and its potential.

Releases

OpenTok Version 2.16: What’s New and How You Can Use It (Nexmo)
Latest OpenTok version focuses on getting OpenTok functionality on Safari to be on par with other browsers.

Extended MOS – New WebRTC Metric Tracks Call Quality (callstats.io)
callstats introduces an algorithm for media quality measurement.

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