Taking WebRTC Video calling to the next step involves providing more functionality and custom behavior to our video conferencing applications. We’ve experimented with using the HTML canvas to add more customization to our video calls, and we’ve found that gives us a lot of power. In this post, we look at leveraging the Vonage Video API with the power of HTML canvas to apply virtual backgrounds to our video calls.

Building in a pre-call test is the most important thing you can do to make your live video application successful. Since we can’t always control call quality, doing a network test, assessing video and audio quality, performing a video and microphone test, and offering a back up plan before the call begins is the best way to ensure customer satisfaction.

Now that we’re working from home, it’s time to innovate and enhance your customers’ experience by integrating a custom video application into your business.

A growing number of people are telecommuting in the US and around the world. Let’s take a look at cases where custom video apps can be especially useful.
