Coronavirus and Telehealth Funding
Like all employers, our team at WebRTC.ventures is monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely. Fortunately, our team already works remotely in most cases, and we work remotely with most of our clients. But through our work in telehealth, we are also very attuned to the benefits of providing remote medical care whenever possible. We've recently launched our SaaS telehealth platform SimplyDoc as an extension of our work in telehealth, and the coronavirus is only making that work more
Remote Work and the Coronavirus
Remote work is having a moment, but unfortunately it's not for good reasons. Concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus are dominating the news right now and making a global impact. That impact has spread well beyond China and the stock market. Employers, school systems, and local governments are all preparing for likely outbreaks in their communities. Working from home A laptop displaying a video conferencing tool, where the user is one of nine tuning in to hold a
Broadcast Solutions by WebRTC.ventures
We talked last week about how broadcasting applications can benefit businesses in various industries. Now let's discuss some use cases for Interactive Broadcast Solution, WebRTC.ventures' customizable broadcasting tool. What is Interactive Broadcast Solution? Interactive Broadcast Solution is WebRTC.ventures' broadcasting and live streaming application. It allows you to create events and broadcast them live to a large audience. If you're holding an event remotely or would like to share with others who can't attend in person,
Looking for a Broadcasting Application?
Broadcasting applications can benefit businesses in several industries. From sporting events and conferences to trainings and webinars (like WebRTC Live!), there are many use cases for broadcasting tools. Let's take a look at a few. Broadcasting and gaming applications Many games and mobile apps utilize broadcasting to stream content to their users. Have you heard of HQ? Live games use WebRTC to stream content in real-time. In HQ's case, WebRTC technology allows them to display
February 19, 2020
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WebRTC Live #38 – “Updates from webrtcHacks,” Chad Hart, webrtcHacks.com
On February 5th, WebRTC.ventures produced Episode #38 of WebRTC Live! Formerly known as WebRTC Standards, WebRTC Live is a webinar series about the latest use cases and technical updates to the popular coding standard for live video. For this episode, we were joined by guest Chad Hart, noted real time communications consultant at cwh.consulting and founder of webrtcHacks.com, who discussed the recent posts on webrtcHacks, AI in RTC, and general WebRTC updates. Check out Episode
Looking for a Video Conferencing Application?
Video conferencing is a crucial tool for countless businesses, including ours! With various use cases in all kinds of industries, video conferencing tools allow companies to improve and streamline their processes and connect with their employees, clients, and partners across the globe. Let's take a look at a few examples of how video conferencing can help your business. A video conferencing application with video streams from nine different participants Meet face-to-face across long distances Need
The Growth of Telecommuting and Video Applications
In my home state of Virginia, a recent article from the University of Virginia declared that "Telecommuting may become Virginia's biggest demographic trend this decade." Hamilton Lombard, a researcher at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is quoted as saying that 6% of Virginians telecommute as of 2018, and that the number of people telecommuting to work has increased 43% since 2010. While this article focused on Virginia, it's safe to
Can Your Business Benefit from WebRTC?
Here at WebRTC.ventures, we're big WebRTC fans! That's because we see the benefits that WebRTC provides and the convenience it brings to companies in all sorts of industries. What is WebRTC? WebRTC stands for Web Real-Time Communications, which is a fancy way of saying live video and audio. When we talk about WebRTC, we're talking about a technology that powers live video and audio applications. Let's take a look at why WebRTC is an excellent
WebRTC.ventures is Hiring US-Based Web Developers
WebRTC.ventures is hiring! If you know anyone who may be interested, please pass this open position along to them. We're hiring US-based web developers. WebRTC.ventures is hiring additional web developers for our team. We are looking for developers with strong technical experience and experience working in a collaborative client-facing environment. We build applications for a variety of industries, including healthcare, and seek additional talent to build reliable and secure video applications for web and mobile. We
Safari: A WebRTC Screen Sharing Story
In 2017, Safari announced compatibility with WebRTC. While many things have changed since then, WebRTC technology continues to evolve and move forward. Today, we’ll take a look at the status of a popular feature: screen sharing. Let’s start by listing the approaches for enabling screen sharing in a web application. Initially, this was possible by using the chooseDesktopMedia API in conjunction with a Chrome extension. This approach worked well, but it was contrary to the
Telehealth Opportunities in Leveraged Primary Care
By Arin Sime, CEO/Founder of WebRTC.ventures The ideal outcomes of any healthcare initiative are to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes at the same time. If we are to make healthcare more sustainable, efficient, and effective, then we must accomplish both of these goals, even if they seem in conflict many times. A recent article in Harvard Business Review lays out a path to meeting that lofty goal. In this blog post, I’ll discuss some of
Learn More About WebRTC: 2019 WebRTC Live Episodes
If you missed any of our WebRTC Live episodes in 2019, you're in luck! Today, we're sharing all of our 2019 WebRTC Live episodes in one blog post. From live streaming to Pion, you can learn a lot about WebRTC from these eight episodes. Check them out! WebRTC Live Episode #30 - "Live Streaming with AI," Alberto Gonzalez, WebRTC.ventures WebRTC Live Episode #31 - "Leveraging the New Features of WebRTC 1.0,” Bernard Aboba, Microsoft WebRTC
How Can WebRTC.ventures Help Your Business?
WebRTC.ventures designs, builds, and licenses custom video and voice applications for all sorts of industries and use cases. With decades of experience in web application and software development, and with over 200,000 hours invested in building real-time applications, we're globally-recognized as experts in WebRTC. You can trust us to turn your vision into a reality. What's WebRTC? WebRTC is a real-time technology that operates using your web browser -- no downloads necessary! This includes video
Do You Know About Our Free WebRTC Resources?
We created free resources to familiarize you with WebRTC! Are you new to WebRTC? Want to brush up on your WebRTC knowledge? Are you envisioning a video-based application but aren't sure what kind of technology to use? Have you heard about the advantages of using WebRTC for telehealth? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you've come to the right place! With decades of web application and software development experience, more than
January 14, 2020
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Video Object Detection: Tell Me More About My Video Stream with Google Cloud Vision
With APIs like Amazon Machine Learning API, Google Cloud Vision API, and IBM Watson Discovery API, it's becoming easier to derive insights from your images and videos. Some of the features you can build relatively quickly with these platforms include object detection, product search, understanding text from images, and detecting explicit content. In this demo, we'll demonstrate how to start using Google Cloud Vision API in live videos. We will assume that we want to
Should You Integrate WebRTC Into Your Business?
Should you integrate WebRTC into your business? If you follow the latest developments in technology, you've probably noticed that WebRTC is being talked about more and more. This leads to the obvious question of whether this technology is something that your business can use. It turns out that there are so many ways that WebRTC can be used that it's almost certain that it can help you in some way. The key is to look
January 7, 2020
Alberto Gonzalez
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AI in WebRTC: Background Removal with Tensorflow in an Agora Video Chat
Today, everyone is talking about AI, or artificial intelligence, and how it will change the world over the next few decades. There are many use cases for it, including healthcare, transportation, security, and even task assistance. AI is being applied to WebRTC and real time communications in interesting ways. One interesting use case is WebRTC error detection and forecasting, an approach used by callstats.io. Another more obvious use case is object detection and segmentation for
January 2, 2020
Paige Long
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WebRTC.ventures’ Telehealth Work Featured in Local News Broadcast
Just before the holidays, WebRTC.ventures' telehealth work with UniWellness was featured in a local news broadcast series on suicide by NBC29 in Charlottesville, where both companies are headquartered. A client of WebRTC.ventures, UniWellness uses a telemental health platform to increase access to mental health care for college students. We used our telehealth starter kit to design and deploy a custom platform that met the unique needs of this demographic and use case. In the Fall
December 18, 2019
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WebRTC Live #37 – “Pion WebRTC Stack,” Sean DuBois, Pion.ly
On December 11th, WebRTC.ventures produced Episode #37 of WebRTC Live! Formerly known as WebRTC Standards, WebRTC Live is a webinar series about the latest use cases and technical updates to the popular coding standard for live video. For this episode, we were joined by guest Sean DuBois, Pion creator and developer at Amazon Web Services, who discussed the Pion.ly open source WebRTC communications stack and showed us an example of how it works. Check out
Estimating the Cost of Your WebRTC Media Server
If you're planning to build a WebRTC application, you have probably come to the conclusion that you need a media server for your use case. We've discussed open source media servers and CPaaS platforms in the past, and that’s probably the first step. However, if you decide to go the open source route and host your own media servers, you might have a couple of questions. Where am I going to host? How much will