WebRTC Weekly Issue #623
LiveKit series C, France goes homegrown, hacking GMeet emojis and more.
Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
📖 Reading
Series C: Towards the voice-driven era of computing (LiveKit)
$100M in fresh new funding. Kudos.
France to scrap Zoom, Meet, Webex for homegrown rival (The Stack)
Built using WebRTC, on top of Element and LiveKit.
Espressif Launches Industry’s First MCU-Based Matter Camera Solution (LinuxGizmos)
Cameras with WebRTC support are going to be popular, now that Matter 1.5 added it to their spec.
🎥 Webcam Customization: Filters & Fine Controls (StreamYard)
More controls over your camera’s output.
⚙️ Technical
webrtc-internals on steroids (sponsored)
10x your troubleshooting and debugging with our powerful WebRTC statistics viewer.
Google Meet Reactions: Reverse Engineering the WebRTC Channel for Emoji (Habr)
A nice read on figuring out the Emoji data channel in Google Meet.
Breaking the QR Limit: The Discovery of a Serverless WebRTC Protocol (magarcia)
Diving into SDP to make it smaller.
💼 Use Cases and Customer Wins
Expanding Digital Education: Digital Samba and VarsityScape Partnership (Digital Samba)
VarsityScape picks Digital Samba for its education service.
Enabling Secure, Low-Latency Video Communication for Insurance Enterprise: AppMan Case Study (Ant Media)
AppMan picks Ant Media for its financial business (likely focused around Know Your Customer operations).
📢 Releases
Digital Samba 630 (Digital Samba)
Introduces restreaming capabilities.
January Updates 2: AI-Powered Summaries, Observations & Open-source Updates (rtcStats)
Taking our first steps into AI-based analysis.
🤓 From our own posts
My WebRTC predictions for 2026 (BlogGeek.me)
That’s all for this week. See you next week!