WebRTC Weekly Issue #312 - January 29, 2020

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

Reading

Hotels, WebRTC and Port Blocking (VoIP Watch)
We’re stuck between ill-managed WiFi access to prohibitively expensive celluar access.

Real-Time AV1 in (lib) #WebRTC m80 … ? (WebRTC by Dr Alex)
No. Not really. Not yet. We don’t know when.

Technical

I See What You’re Saying: Sentiment Analysis With OpenTok and Azure Face API (Nexmo)
Mixing OpenTok’s platform with Azure AI capabilities.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Kaltura Acquires Newrow to Deliver New Meeting Experiences (Press release)
Kudos to the team at Newrow.

Canonical Introduces Scalable Android-Based Cloud Platform (Techsemut)
This is like Stadia for Android apps delivery.

CBC Deploys Make.TV Solution For Live Talk Show (InBroadcast)
Second time recently that getting guests on a TV show is done using WebRTC.

DropIn Announces Web-Based Video Streaming for Insurance Claims (Press release)
No-app necessary is the selling point here.

System73 and AMPD Partner for Global Multi-CDN Solution and Expansion of the AMPD High-Performance Compute Platform into Europe (Press release)
Multi CDN is another area where WebRTC is needed.

How to Create an Online Karaoke App Using Agora SDK (Agora)
Agora explains the making of Karaoke apps.

Meet the B2B videoconferencing startup that’s gone crazy for online dating (TechCrunch)
This is going to be an interesting pivot.

Be My Eyes Delivers Sight to People with Visual Impairments Using Programmable Video (Twilio)
Be My Eyes decides to single source video delivery from Twilio.

Releases

None this week.

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