WebRTC Weekly Issue #399 - September 29, 2021

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

Reading

Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families (TechCrunch)
Amazon has its own Facebook Portal now (and there’s a new robot too).

The future of Skype: Fast, playful, delightful & buttery smooth​ (Skype Blogs)
Skype is finally doing something interesting.

Technical

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Apple’s not so private relay fails with WebRTC (webrtcHacks)
The backlash on this one might wake up Apple to WebRTC (and improve Safari while at it?)

WebRTC M94 Release Notes (discuss-webrtc)
MediaTrack Insertable Streams officially land.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Say Hello to Wave (Clubhouse)
Clubhouse getting into the Houseparty world.

Brave Launches Brave Talk for Privacy-Preserving Video Conferencing (Brave)
A win for Jitsi. Hopefully this won’t go the way of Firefox Hello.

Lounge’s new app aims to reimagine the office for the remote work era (TechCrunch)
Another interesting take on remote work and collaboration.

Ocular Solution brings video chat to the customer journey (TechCrunch)
Another video chat widget. Interesting engagement numbers in there.

How Coding Rooms built a better online classroom experience (Daily)
This story is about why you should use CPaaS and one selecting the right one is important.

RTSP to WebRTC: IP Camera Streaming for Real-Time Surveillance (Wowza)
RTSP to WebRTC workflow now available in Wowza Streaming Cloud.

Releases

Video Express Is Here and Why It Is Awesome (Vonage)
Vonage introduces a simpler API for group video calls.

OpenVidu 2.20.0: High Availability in AWS (OpenVidu)
Adds HA to its Enterprise edition.

From our own posts

None this week.