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

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

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 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? 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 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

"Can you hear me now?" That's the sort of phrase dreaded on all video chats, but happens all too frequently. Call quality is becoming even more important as bandwidth improves for the average user (even on mobile) and as video chats become more common in many industries like telehealth, telemedicine, education, and more. That's why our team has been working with TokBox's new Pre-call api to experiment with ensuring that your custom WebRTC application will

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 it can be used that it's almost certain that it can help you in some way. The key is to look

At the KrenkyGeek Show, last week, Google's team announced a great deal about the current panorama of WebRTC. One of the tidbits shared was the number of WebRTC related acquisitions happening in the past 3 quarters, which so far amounts to 28. As we dive head-first into Q4 of 2015, you might want to keep yourself informed about promising companies which are both investing in and modifying WebRTC paradigms. FuzeBox, Inc. Better known as Fuze,

September 1st marked what might be the beginning of the end for a licensing nightmare which has been hindering the real-time and media streaming industries alike for quite a while now. Before we take a look at the announcement I'm alluding to here, let's break down a few key concepts you need to know in order to correctly digest the magnitude of what this article is ultimately about, the Alliance for Open Media. First off,

Last night I had a lot of fun presenting to the Silicon Valley Realtime meetup on WebRTC. It's a talk that I've given a few times recently and the interest from attendees always shows how compelling WebRTC is and how disruptive it can be to real time communication applications. Links from the Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/arinsime/webrtc-overview Demo 1: Grabbing a profile pic with GetUserMedia https://github.com/agilityfeat/getusermedia-profilepicture Demo 2: Sample medical app with 2 party video chat https://github.com/agilityfeat/webrtc-sample-medical-app This

What Does WebRTC Mean for Advertising and Customer Service? WebRTC has been around for a while, but it has only gotten big enough to really hit the radar recently. This means that it will likely follow the same general pattern that other developments have as it matures in the public's eyes. One important part of this pattern involves advertising. Advertising The main focus of advertising is to interest the consumer in your product or service.

WebRTC is just a video communications protocol, but look no further than your cell phone to know that any communication tool can also play a big role in public safety. When I got my first flip phone in the 90's (yes, I am that old, but just barely), it was mainly for safety reasons - I had a long drive home at night and I had recently had a car accident with no way to

P2P Game with the WebRTC Data Channel WebRTC gets a lot of attention because of the video and audio communications it offers to web and mobile applications. But there is a lot more you can do with WebRTC! In this post that I wrote for WebRTCHacks, I'll show you in depth how to write WebRTC code that lets you use the Data Channel to send commands and data between two users in a multiplayer game.

The Benefits of Starting School Online This Fall Online schools have been around for many years now, and like most things, they have improved greatly over time. While there are still "diploma mill" versions, there are now plenty of course offerings and programs from accredited schools. These allow students to take classes and earn degrees on their own time with the confidence that the degrees will be accepted by potential employers. Here are some of

Did you know you can "fake" an audio stream in WebRTC? This is useful if you want to manipulate audio streams (to add audio effects for example), or if you want to stream an audio file. In this article I'm going to show you a rudimentary implementation of how it would look like to generate an audio pulse and sending it through WebRTC. To get started, let us generate the pulse wave which later we'll

Exciting Opportunities in the WebRTC Industry Software developers and those who intend to become developers have surely noticed the advance of WebRTC and identified it as a likely source of project orders. There are several positions for people who know how to work in this field, although many projects involve people who are experts at one or more of the components that go into a completed app. Some of the most important skills that are used

While writing a series on how to control a web camera using an Arduino and WebRTC, I stumbled upon the need for a NodeJS implementation of WebRTC compatible with PubNub. On my client I was using PubNub's webrtc-sdk, so the path of least resistance was to take that same implementation and port it to work with NodeJS. What I ended up with is the following package: https://github.com/jeanlescure/node-pubnub-webrtc It is available through NPM and using it

A Beginner’s Guide to WebRTC Web and app developers constantly work to learn about the latest developments so that they can make products that are relevant in the current landscape. Because of this, they look at new ways of doing things in a different way than most people. Instead of simply seeing if something is cool or useful, they also ask themselves if it seems to have any staying power, which platforms it works on,

Commercial offerings based on WebRTC, such as TokBox, have already established and proven that WebRTC is here to stay. Now, we have been working on some interesting demonstrations of WebRTC, including one in iOS, using the WKWebView component, which we'll be posting about shortly. We ended up using WKWebView, essentially embedding a web browser in our app, since it faired well with our requirements. Yet, before arriving to that solution, the question arose of what