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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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