WebRTC Weekly Issue #283

1. Simulcast handling 2. FaceTime eye contact 3. Zoom security

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

Reading

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What Is WebRTC? The Developing Web Technology You Should Know About (OnSIP)
A nice review of WebRTC.

iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem (The Verge)
Most probably machine learning here.

China’s Alipay adds sought-after beauty filters to face-scan payments (TechCrunch)
Improving a person's local video to improve his likelihood to pay...

This clever Chrome extension camouflages Netflix in a conference call
(TNW)
Another great use case for group video calling.

Technical

Building a JavaScript Hotline with OpenTok and Node.js (Nexmo)
First exmaple of Glitch that I've seen in one of these blogs.

PSA: Change to simulcast handling (discuss-webrtc)
Chrome M77 will allow configuring simulcast layers.

3CX WebMeeting’s Performance Ahead of the WebRTC Pack (3CX)
3CX benchmarks its server compared to open source alternatives.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

E-Sports and Low Latency (Red5 Pro)
Another niche where large scale low latency streaming changes the game.

Releases

From our own posts

• Zoom Security (chriskranky.com)

• PSA: mDNS and .local ICE candidates are coming (BlogGeek.me)