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 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! 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

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 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

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

WebRTC.ventures Charlottesville, Virginia USA team@webrtc.ventures For Immediate Release WebRTC.ventures is pleased to announce our inclusion in the SwitchRTC Technology Circle partner program, a small group of high quality development agencies certified to build video communication apps with the SwitchRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU). SwitchRTC is a Cloud Native SFU that allows for building high quality and scalable multiparty video chat, screen sharing, text chat, and real-time broadcasting for applications that require low delay delivery of

WebRTC.ventures wins a RingCentral prize in TADHack-mini Orlando 2017 We’re very proud to have participated one more time in the Telecom Application Development Hackathon (aka TADHack). TADHack is the largest telecoms-focused hackathon worldwide. This time it was the TADHack-mini Orlando 2017, which happened on March 25 and 26 in Orlando. Germán Goldenstein, Rafael Viscarra and Fernando Vasquez from our team participated remotely and won a sponsor prize from RingCentral for building the "Telemergency Line app". This is basically

WebRTC Rising at Enterprise Connect 2017 The last time I attended the Enterprise Connect conference was in 2014. Three years ago, we had already been following WebRTC in our team, but we weren't doing very much client work yet in WebRTC. WebRTC was bleeding edge at that point - it was barely 2 years old and it was definitely not accepted yet as an enterprise class technology. What a difference 3 years makes! Attending Enterprise

Recent weeks have brought a slew of WebRTC conferencing tool announcements, especially targeted to the enterprise. Amazon announced Chime - their free conference tool which touts "exceptional audio and video quality." Google has started to roll out an enterprise version of Hangouts called Google Meet. And while not directly targeted at the enterprise, Amazon and Google are both planning to add telephony capability to Amazon Echo and Google Home. Adding VOIP telephone calls into those

An Open Letter to our developers (and potential developers) at WebRTC.ventures A note from Arin Sime, WebRTC.ventures CEO:  Germán Goldenstein has been a stellar developer in our team, and we recently promoted him to a Developer Evangelist position.  As part of this new role, he will create technical content that we use on this site to help others learn more about WebRTC and to promote our services. In this blog post, Germán shared a little

Using Kurento media server provides extra value to a WebRTC video call. In addition to the common features that every media server brings such as multi-party calls, media transcoding and recording, this open source webRTC media server adds others advanced multimedia capabilities: augmented reality, computer vision, broadcasting, mixing, and more. Combining these amazing features with Asterisk will result in a powerful solution that connects a IP-phone with a webRTC compatible browser, enhancing SIP communications with

The KrankyGeek team has done it again! They've put together another great event filled with WebRTC content. This time KrankyGeek was held in São Paulo Brazil, and our team at WebRTC.ventures was proud to sponsor the event as well as have one of our own (Germán Goldenstein) present an introduction to WebRTC. The following is our summary of the event, and we'll also include the videos produced by KrankyGeek as soon as they are publicly

Is your chatbot designed to be transactional or conversational? Multichannel or single channel? Social or functional? These are important questions to answer as you consider any sort of customer contact strategy involving text or video chat. Last week, my business partner David Alfaro attended the TADSummit in Lisbon, Portugal, and presented the multichannel chatbot that a few members of our team built for the Global TADHack in October. As previously blogged about, our team won

As part of the 2016 TADHack Global, a few members of the WebRTC ventures team submitted a hack from New York City - and we're pleased to say they won a prize! David Alfaro, Néstor Bermúdez, and Germán Goldenstein from our team built a multichannel bot to demonstrate the possibilities of virtual medical assistants. Also joining the team to help on the front end work was Juan Ignacio Serra, a New York based designer and

Information Security is an increasingly important topic and one that is too often overlooked. This is true in all web development, but as WebRTC video technology continues to mature and become a more critical part of internet communications, it’s also true for WebRTC development. As our team has grown at WebRTC ventures, and as we serve more and more clients in all industry verticals, security has become more and more important. That’s why I’m pleased

I've written recently about the potential of combining WebRTC and bots together into one application. In June, David Alfaro and I made a presentation at WebRTC Argentina which showed some simple examples of how you might combine a bot and live human support for telemedicine applications. You can see the video of that presentation below, or read the transcript and see the slides on RealTimeWeekly. In this post however, I want to talk a little

Bots, Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Artificial Intelligence are all the rage right now. As one speaker at Twilio’s Signal conference sarcastically said this week, “it seems like every startup in San Francisco has to have a f’in bot strategy now!” WebRTC is all about connecting real humans though, peer to peer, in a video chat directly in the browser. One popular use case is live support tools, as another channel for customer service or

The DataChannel is often a second-class citizen of the WebRTC eco-system. WebRTC is increasingly well known because of the ability to easily get access to the camera and microphone from a user's laptop, using only javascript. This video and audio combination, combined with the Peer to Peer (P2P) architecture of WebRTC, has opened up many applications involving secure video chat. Telehealth apps, video conferencing in the browser, collaboration tools, telepresence solutions, and more ... all

We are proud to announce the WebRTC Argentina mini-conference to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 15th 2016.  It is the first WebRTC conference of it's kind in Argentina, and our team at WebRTC.ventures is a sponsor and organizer of the event. You can learn more and register for this free event at: http://realtimeweekly.co/webrtc-argentina-2016/ The 3 hour mini-conference will be a series of short talks covering the basics of WebRTC as well as use