What exactly is WebRTC and how are the peer-to peer, real-time communication video, audio, and data channels it enables used in different industries such as video conferencing, contact centers, telehealth, insurance, in-context communications, dating and social media, gaming, IoT, and more? Let’s find out.
In the space of thirteen months, Google took real-time speech translation from an English-and-Spanish demo at I/O 2025 to Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a 70-language streaming model announced in June 2026 and now expanding into Google Meet through private preview, on top of the five-language version already
Choosing to go open source over a CPaaS for your WebRTC media stack is a strategic decision about control, flexibility, and long-term ownership. For teams building real-time products, an open source WebRTC media server can offer the freedom to customize media handling, integrate deeply with your architecture,
For years, developers building real-time video and audio applications on the web have worked under a quiet constraint: whatever protocol you chose, it had to work in Safari. Well, that’s not 100% true because many WebRTC apps used to have disclaimers like “works best in Chrome”. When
