Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
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Adding Encrypted Group Calls to Signal (Signal)
Seems to be using Insertable Streams
Twitter acquires screen-sharing social app Squad (TechCrunch)
Kudos to the team behind Squad.
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Call for Review: WebRTC 1.0: Real-Time Communication Between Browsers is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (W3C News)
We are getting there.
WebRTC M88 Release Notes (discuss-webrtc)
Optimizations in video encoding pipeline.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 117 (WebKit)
Apple adds support for Insertable Streams. I wish they’d fix their audio issues…
How One Developer Recreated AirDrop Using Just JavaScript (DEV)
Using WebRTC…
Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer — The case of the extra 40 ms (Netflix)
Not really WebRTC, but similarities of the nature of developing with WebRTC exist here.
Use Cases and Customer Wins
Parsec raises $25M from a16z to power remote work and cloud gaming (TechCrunch)
Taking cloud gaming tech into the enterprise environment.
myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform (TechCrunch)
Remote interviewing platforms are a thing now, which makes sense.
Cosmos Video — a ‘Club Penguin for adults’ to socialise and work — raises $2.6M from LocalGlobe (TechCrunch)
This new approach to remote work is interesting. A fun experience, but will it stick?
Virtual backgrounds, closed captioning, and more for your video meetings (RingCentral)
Background replacement is becoming table stakes.
Releases
None this week.
From our own posts
None this week.