WebRTC Weekly Issue #416 - February 2, 2022

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

Reading

Microsoft Teams surpasses 270M monthly active users, as growth slows from early days of pandemic (GeekWire)
Nice continued growth for Microsoft Teams.

Express Yourself in Messenger’s End-to-End Encrypted Chats (Messenger News)
E2EE for all chats including group voice and video calls.

Technical

Senior Audio/Video Engineer at Vowel (sponsored):
Come and implement key Audio/Video features across our platform

How to create virtual background with the new feature of Amazon Chime SDK “video background replacement” (dannadori)
Background blurring is table stakes.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

How Gather is Revolutionizing Video Conferencing with Subspace (sponsored):
Learn more about this innovative partnership.

Brella and Wonder partner to create unique 360 networking experiences (Brella)
An interesting partnership in the virtual events space.

How Reslash built and scaled a creative events platform with spatial audio at its core (Daily)
Switched from open source media sevrers to Daily.

Takeaways from Watching My First Broadway Livestream (LiveSwitch)
A nice read about streaming theater shows.

Introducing dynamic end-to-end encryption for RingCentral Video (RingCentral)
Interesting. The ability to turn on and off E2EE dynamically within a call.

Releases

Announcing Adaptive Simulcast for Video Group Rooms (Twilio)
This should be table stakes in 2022 2021. Also from Twilio a room monitor applet.

GStreamer 1.20 RC1 Released With Many Exciting Improvements (Phoronix.com)
GStreamer is improving its support of WebRTC.

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