Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
Reading
Skin in the game: Video chat apps tout ‘inclusive’ AI features (Reuters)
AI is being used to improve on the experience and in some ways, trying to make it also inclusive.
Could Claap, an asynchronous video meetings platform, end the tyranny of Zoom calls? (TechCrunch)
No. Not that async is a bad idea, just that it won’t kill Zoom.
Technical
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FaceTime finally faces WebRTC – implementation deep dive (webrtcHacks)
An interesting way to implement with WebRTC.
Intent to Ship: WebCodecs (blink-dev)
Not sure why Google are so keen to fast track this one. Unless they plan to use it themselves. Stadia maybe?
Common Misconceptions About Real-Time Communication (Agora)
Ben Weekes on his Kranky Geek presentation.
Use Cases and Customer Wins
Carbyne raises $20M more so when death knocks, you don’t answer the door (TechCrunch)
Kudos on the raise.
Seoul-based Ringle raises $18M Series A for its one-on-one English tutoring platform (TechCrunch)
They seem to have kept the video calling part out of the service itself, which is interesting.
Wormhole: Instant Encrypted File-Sharing Powered by WebTorrent (TorrentFreak)
Makes sense as a feature/service on top of WebTorrent.
Releases
None this week
From our own posts
None this week