WebRTC Weekly Issue #334 - July 1, 2020

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

Reading

Only 4 last spots left (sponsored):
Workshop: WebRTC Innovation and Differentiation in a post pandemic world

Coming to Google Meet: Customizable backgrounds, Nest integration, and more (Google Cloud)
Google are making a habit of shipping something for Meet on a weekly basis now.

Agora starts life as a public company by more than doubling to $50 a share (TechCrunch)
A (very) successful IPO for a Video API vendor.

Discord now has a $3.5B valuation and $100M for a sales pitch lighter on the gaming (TechCrunch)
Kudos on the investment round.

Technical

Using getDisplayMedia for local recording with audio on Jitsi (webrtcHacks)
A good overview of getDisplayMedia and MediaRecorder.

Use a Green Screen in Javascript With Vonage Video (Vonage)
Doing green screen canvas calculations. A 1st step towards background replacement.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

France’s api.video raises $5.5M to make it easier for developers to add video features (TechCrunch)
Media Recorder for the broadcaster. HLS or RTMP for the “live” viewer.

Airvet, a telehealth veterinary platform, just clawed its way to a $14 million Series A round (TechCrunch)
Not sure if this one uses WebRTC. I know for sure some of the competitors mentioned in the article are.

Releases

None this week.

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