WebRTC Weekly Issue #617
Toilets, VR assets, Santa, rtc-stats server & more.
Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
📖 Reading
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted (TechCrunch)
Oh crap…
Mirrored Billboards for Safe and Format-Agnostic Asset Sharing in Social Public Metaverses (ACM)
”DRM” for 3D assets using… WebRTC.
Five WebRTC Predictions for 2026: Tsahi Levent-Levi on AV1, MOQ, and What Might Break Next (WebRTC.ventures)
This one was fun to do.
⚙️ Technical
Let’s MOQ It Up: Everything You Need Know About MOQ (sponsored)
Explore Media over QUIC in this video series. Discover why MOQ is making headlines, how it works, and what makes it a game-changer for lightning-fast streaming experiences.
Debugging Janus sessions with rtcStats (Meetecho)
Lorenzo’s experience with rtcStats open source+SaaS combo.
Setup and troubleshoot your rtcStats-server (WebRTC For Developers)
Olivier’s step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and running rtcstats-server.
💼 Use Cases and Customer Wins
Building Holiday Magic: Twilio Powers Real-Time Calls for ‘NORAD Tracks Santa’ (Twilio)
Alas, NORAD went for voice-only here. No video. Maybe next year it will be GenAI…
Introducing Skip.li — A peer-to-peer url shortener for a freer Web (nichrubino)
A solution looking for a problem? Anyways, a neat simple use of WebRTC’s P2P nature.
Genesys Cloud and Five9 now supported on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 (Windows IT Pro blog)
In VDI environments, the best thing to do with WebRTC is to redirect it to the real device.
📢 Releases
December Updates: Public Sharing, New Network Metrics and a Richer Knowledge Base (rtcStats)
Last release for the year.
🤓 From our own posts
What is vendor lock-in in WebRTC? (BlogGeek.me)
That’s all for this week. See you next week!