Scaling your WebRTC application
Given our experience with WebRTC applications, we’re asked sometimes to provide some guidance or advice to other teams implementing a real time communications app. We’re often too busy with our clients to provide detailed technical support or troubleshooting, but there is general advice we can often share. In one of those recent calls I was asked “How do I scale my WebRTC application?” This particular person is building a telehealth solution for a large emerging
Viewpoint on WebRTC for mHealth
Is WebRTC the best way to deliver telehealth consultations? What are the pros and cons? I tried to address those questions to mobile health professionals in a recent edition of the mHealth Journal. In my viewpoint column entitled "WebRTC: delivering telehealth in the browser", I give an overview of WebRTC, and the unique challenges and benefits it offers for telemedicine applications. I have included a summary of the key points below, and you can also
WebRTC and IoT – Arin Sime on Dialogic Podcast
Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with Alan Percy from Dialogic on his Developer Comms Podcast. We talked about WebRTC and the Internet of Things (IoT), building on a presentation that I gave earlier this month at WebRTC Boston. In the talk, we discussed an example of how WebRTC and IoT intersect for Telehealth applications, emergency services, and hacking around these topics. We also talked about how there is a lot of potential in
WebRTCventures Sponsoring WebRTC Standards webinars
This Wednesday March 30th will be the 3rd edition of the WebRTC Standards Live Session, and our team at WebRTC ventures is proud to be their first corporate sponsor! The main topic will be around screensharing, but these sessions are focused on viewers' Q&A so you can ask them any question about WebRTC that you like. From an email announcing the event: This time we’ll be talking about screen sharing in WebRTC and screen capture.
3 Things WebRTC Cannot Do
Our team is always receiving interesting calls from customers and potential customers, who want to know if their web or mobile communications or collaboration application can be implemented using WebRTC technologies. Sometimes those calls lead to some insights in industry trends (which I've documented previously here), and other times they highlight misunderstandings about what capabilities WebRTC gives us. The following 3 misconceptions have come up in several recent conversations I've had. The fact that these
Arin Sime featured in “WebRTC Topic of the Month”
There are a number of great WebRTC blogs out there, including "The New Dialtone" by Amir Zmora. One of the regular features Amir writes is the WebRTC "Topic of the Month", where he poses a question to WebRTC activists and thought leaders. I'm proud to have been included in the most recent edition, where Amir asked us the following question: Is there anything significant in the RingCentral WebRTC API announcement and what does it mean
WebRTC Boston Recap
I originally posted this article on RealTimeWeekly.co - sign up for free weekly news on the latest real time technologies and events, including WebRTC! What's the latest news with WebRTC? At WebRTC Boston, we heard about the latest on WebRTC adoption, IoT and WebRTC, codecs, WebRTC broadcasting, and if WebRTC has been a failure or a success. On March 1st, I traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts for the WebRTC Boston meetup. Chad Hart of WebRTC Hacks
IoT and WebRTC – presentation at WebRTC Boston
Does WebRTC have a place in the Internet of Things? This is a question I've often wondered and an area I'm expecting to see a lot of growth in WebRTC development. At WebRTC Boston today, I had a chance to explore this question in a session on "Putting WebRTC into Things." In this talk, I gave an overview of how people are experimenting with WebRTC and the IoT. In this presentation, which I've summarized below,
Live Streaming the Snowpocalypse with WebRTC
Last week we had a major snowstorm on the East Coast of the United States, where I live. Over 60 centimeters of snow fell and life ground to a frozen halt. The kids were all home from school, but I still needed to work and fortunately the storm never took out power or internet where I live. The front steps to my house after Snowpocalypse hits Virginia. But it probably wasn’t
Video Chat and WebRTC Takes Online Education and Tutoring to a New Level
The world of online education and tutoring has been remarkably enhanced and changed in a number of ways by video chat and WebRTC capabilities. The addition of these capabilities has brought a positive level of interaction and engagement that was missing from online education and tutoring, as well as an increase in academic success of students now participating in these web-based learning environments. Before video chat and WebRTC, online education was limited to text-based messages
7 things to expect in WebRTC development in 2016
I became interested in WebRTC a few years ago, and immediately saw the disruptive nature of WebRTC in the browser. Peer to peer, encrypted communications in the browser has so many applications. At the time, most of the demo applications were "skype killers" - video conferencing tools that aspired to take out the dominance of Skype or more expensive Unified Communications tools. Since 2014, my development company AgilityFeat (now also operating as WebRTC.ventures) began to
WebRTC and IoT Sensors
WebRTC is not just video - it's Data too! WebRTC is not just about video chat, although that is almost always part of it. WebRTC allows for Peer to Peer video chat, audio chat, or data exchange between two web browser clients. With a little extra work, mobile apps can get in on the fun too. This opens up some interesting possibilities in the coming wave of "things" on the internet. There are two general
The worst part of building WebRTC mobile apps
Software development is hard, especially when you are working with a cutting edge technology like WebRTC. Of course, that's what makes it exciting too! WebRTC enables video chat in browsers and mobile devices As you may already know, WebRTC is an HTML5 standard for building peer-to-peer video chat applications in the browser. The key phrase to notice in this case is HTML5. HTML5 is the latest generation of markup language for browsers, but not all
Wearables, the Internet of Things, and Healthcare
As a WebRTC developer, I understand the impact that WebRTC is having on telemedicine. Bringing secure video chat into the browser is opening up a lot of possibilities in telehealth that were previously difficult or impossible. We've had a number of interesting calls lately with potential clients looking to apply WebRTC to a variety of telehealth situations. But there is a lot more to telehealth than just video chat, which is why I enjoyed a
The future of streaming media is interactive
Yahoo's Football stream was great, but the future of streaming is more interactive. Yahoo hosted a huge live streaming event last week when they showed a feed of the American Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars, which was played in London's Wembley Stadium. Over 15 million viewers - That's pretty impressive. Not all of them were happy, but that's the state of streaming media on the internet, it's never perfect. But overall
Telehealth & WebRTC webinar with Wellbeing Consult
What makes WebRTC such a compelling video communications technology for Telehealth applications? We explored this question in a webinar this week with Dr. Marty Brewster, the CEO and founder of Wellbeing Consult. Wellbeing Consult is one of our clients here at WebRTC.ventures and we have been working on their telehealth application's design and development, using TokBox as the WebRTC platform. It's been a very interesting project and so I'm grateful he spent some time with
Wellbeing Consult Testimonial on WebRTC (Video)
WebRTC brings equitable access to healthcare with Wellbeing Consult Wellbeing Consult is an Australian startup that hired our team at WebRTC.ventures because of our team's deep expertise in WebRTC and TokBox. They came to us with the concept for their Minimum Viable Product to connect patients with mental health providers in Australia, and our team of designers and developers have brought their Telehealth MVP to reality. In the following video, you'll meet our team as
WebRTC.ventures Apple Watch app wins TADHack Telestax award
WebRTC.ventures Apple Watch app wins TADHack award When you are having a heart attack, time is of the essence. You need to get to the hospital immediately in order to save your life. One of the biggest problems is that your chances of survival fall dramatically if you take more than an hour to arrive at the hospital. You might be delayed because you don't realize you're having a serious heart attack, or you might
How Will WebRTC Be Affected by Social Media?
How Will WebRTC Be Affected by Social Media? WebRTC offers the ability for users to engage in real-time video and audio communications. This type of capability seems like it'd be a perfect complement to social media sites, but how will it affect WebRTC and video communications in general? On the browser side, Chrome, Firefox and Opera all implement WebRTC very well. This means integrating video chat with WebRTC into a social media site will work
The UX of WebRTC (Presentation Recap)
The following video is a presentation on UX and design patterns for WebRTC applications that I had the pleasure of giving at Google's San Francisco office in September 2015 as part of the KrankyGeek WebRTC Live conference. It was a great event with many interesting speakers, and I encourage you to check them all out. Below is a video of my talk and a written summary of the presentation. You can also see my slides
