[TADHack Argentina] They Attended, They Competed…but Who Won??
WebRTC.ventures hosted TADHack Global 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina this past weekend. Not only was this an honor, but we had a blast doing so. During this event, developers, businesses, even non-coders – basically anyone interested in learning more on how innovative telecom apps, services and solutions can grow their businesses and beat out their competition came together. As with any TADHack event, there was the option to compete and win prizes! Teams were challenged to
WebRTC.ventures Partners with TestRTC in a Kurento Server Analysis
Here at webRTC.ventures, we like the quote “In the social age, knowledge is only powerful by sharing what you know” by Charlie-Helen Robinson. So when Tsahi Levent-Levi of TestRTC asked us to work with him on testing how many sessions a Kurento server can hold, we were not only honored, but excited to help out. In his blog post, Tsahi answers a common question "How Many Sessions Can a Kurento Server Hold"?. He goes on to state "You decided
WebRTC Ventures Announces Email Course – HIPAA WebRTC Video in Telehealth
Webrtc.ventures offers free email course on the future of video in healthcare and telehealth, examining the inherent security advantages of a telehealth application based on webrtc video technology. Telehealth is gaining much attention lately due to its many benefits to both providers and patients like: reduced healthcare costs, higher quality patient care, easier follow-up appointments which lead to reduced hospital readmission rates, improved quality of life for patients and access to quality providers for remote
Trending Now: There is a New Guy in Town, Microsoft Edge with WebRTC, So Move Over IE!
Today, I think we can all agree that communication is very interactive. We are not only becoming more visual, but want things FAST, in real-time. Internet Explorer is losing popularity and Microsoft Edge Windows 10 with WebRTC features is gaining much attention. Here’s why! In the past, we were reliant solely on vocal and video communications. Several projects and software products were released to provide us the real-time communication with main components being chat, voice,
Which CPaaS Provider Alternative is the Best Choice for Your Application? Tokbox, Vidyo, Temasys, Twilio & More
Many companies are now looking into adding cloud-based, CPaaS (Communication Platform As a Service) features to their websites — these real-time communications capabilities include live video, voice and messaging. Not only are companies looking to keep up with...and even beat out their competition by being innovative, but businesses realize that incorporating CPaaS into their website is a great way to set instant meetings and participate in contextual communications with your customers, partners or potential clients….
Tic-Toc Tic-Toc…The Time of WebRTC Mobile Support Has Come!
Some of you may remember our article from two years ago: “The Worst Part of Building WebRTC Apps”. One thing mentioned in the article (other than testing being painful!!) was that WebRTC mobile support is limited — that was true and what's also true is that the WebRTC team has done a big effort of enabling Real Time Communication in most of the browsers, even on mobile web browsers. In just a couple of years
Want to Win a TADHack Challenge? Top Tips from 3 Time Winning Team
TADHack – or Telecom Application Development Hackathon Challenges are taking place in over 30 cities gloabally. You are going and have entered one of the sponsored challenges. You have a prototype idea and WANT TO WIN....but how? Our talented team at webRTC.ventures has won challenge awards the past three years for our TADHacks and have a few tips which may help. Top 6 Expert Tips to Winning a TADHack Challenge: 1) Get on a team. If you
WebRTC.ventures Winning Telecom Application TADHacks – From an Apple Watch App to a Virtual Triage…
A few weeks ago, we announced that WebRTC.ventures will host TADHack Global 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As mentioned in that blog post, this is our first time hosting an event, but 0ur WebRTC.ventures team of developers have previously participated in a number of TADHack events and even won coveted prizes and Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017 for our innovative telecom app prototypes. Teams are challenged to create a hack or prototype using sponsor telecom
Kurento Recording Solutions Made Simple
Most WebRTC implementations require some kind of recording these days, but they are often cumbersome and implementing them is complex. Some even involve docker containers with X-servers running inside capturing a chrome window. Given their implementation complexity, it’s even harder to debug them, so is there an alternative to this tedious process? Enter Kurento Media Server. Kurento is an open-source media server, it has video transcoding and recording capabilities built-in it has been in development
Quick Guide for STUN/TURN and WebRTC.
Why STUN/TURN? In order to do WebRTC across different networks, we need to bypass firewalls and we also have all kinds of restrictions set by ISPs, in order to bypass this restrictions and punch a hole in the receptors firewalls to get media through we need to rely on a STUN/TURN server, to either find the right route if possible (STUN), or act as a relay server for the media passing through (TURN), in this
WebRTC.ventures Hosts TADHack Global 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
We are proud to announce that WebRTC.ventures will host TADHack Global 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to Buenos Aires, this year’s 2017 event will take place in over 30 other cities across the globe from September 22-24 and September 29-October 1. Our WebRTC.ventures team of developers have previously participated in a number of TADHack events and even won coveted prizes and Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017 for our innovative telecom app prototypes, but
WebRTC Telehealth – A Solution to High Hospital Readmission Rates
According to a recent article published by Kaiser Health News, Medicare is penalizing over 2500 hospitals due to the overly high readmission rates. Starting in October of this year, the federal government will cut those hospitals’ payments by as much as 3 percent for a year. Fortunately, there is a solution available to hospitals and health care systems — WebRTC Telehealth. The American Hospital Association (AHA) 2016 report, stated that growing evidence indicates that telehealth lowers
Goodbye Flash, Hello WebRTC: A New Solution for Video Chat
Over the last few days, Adobe has finally announced the day in which they’ll drop support for flash as a whole, at the end of 2020, this truly marks the end of an era for the internet. What does this mean for the internet? This means that sites that are still using Flash as a media solution will have to migrate to new technologies to provide their media and they will have to do it
5 simple steps to add video chat to your WordPress site.
To demonstrate the flexibility of WebRTC based applications, we have developed a video chat plugin for the popular wordpress platform that allows to make a call or initiate screen sharing between two users on the blog. You can make a call and other user will receive this call, you can also choose between sharing your screen or just sharing a webcam stream. This was done using one of many WebRTC based CPaaS (Communication Platforms as
Must-Read Tutorials Before Getting Started with WebRTC
Lately, WebRTC is a hot topic. Apple announced its support of Web Real Time Communication P2P video and audio chat applications. Google supports it. Many businesses are adding it to their communications platforms due to its many benefits - increased client engagement, client reach, and client retention; increased growth and revenue, maximized efficiencies and the list goes on and on. You may even want to get started with WebRTC but you don't know where to begin. That's
Building high quality and scalable video chat web app with SwitchRTC
Building high quality and scalable video chat web app with SwitchRTC As part of our daily gymnastic we always dedicate time and effort to learn and work with cutting edge technology. In WebRTC.ventures we’ve been using SwitchRTC which is a WebRTC based Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that runs on Amazon AWS or other cloud public or private environments. We recently joined their partnership program SwitchRTC Technology Circle partner program and thanks to that we had
Calling All Developers — Take the Embedded Video Communication Survey Today!
Calling All Developers — Take the Embedded Video Communication Survey Today! WebRTC.ventures has partnered with vidyo.io to create this embedded video communication survey and we need your input. As you may know, video is an emerging channel offered by CPaaS providers. The intent of this survey is to measure the perception of developers towards this channel and the results observed by those who are already using it. In the coming months, we will release a
WebRTC support in Safari 11
After years of speculation, Apple has officially announced support for WebRTC! Like many prognosticators and consultants in the video communications space, I feel personally redeemed that things are becoming official. Just this week I was talking with a potential client and predicting that Apple would start to support WebRTC video communications in Safari and/or iOS later this year. I was hardly alone in this prediction, and by posting jobs for WebRTC engineers and attending the
[Testimonial] Docto Telehealth Video Chat Application – From Zero to Demo in 3 Months
[Testimonial] Docto Telehealth Video Chat Application From Zero to Demo in 3 Months After a year wasted on inexperienced developers, Docto's Director and Co-Founder, Dr. John Field turned to the WebRTC.ventures team to get professional help in developing and launching their medical specialist healthcare service. He was specifically interested in developing a telehealth video chat application that would connect patients with the medical specialists who would most likely to be able to assist the patient. A year
Tips for iOS & WebRTC Development with TokBox
Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Slack: Are you familiar with any of these apps? Do you know what they all have in common? The answer is all of them use WebRTC technology for client to client video conversations. Our team at WebRTC.ventures builds iOS apps like this with WebRTC, and so can you! In this blog post we will investigate how to get started building WebRTC into your iOS app. We will use the native libraries provided
