Earlier this month, OpenAI released the GA version of its realtime API. This includes many capabilities that the Beta didn’t have, including video support. I started out doing an update to the The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI’s Realtime WebRTC API I made for the Beta release last November. I discovered there were enough WebRTC updates […]
Blackbox Exploration
Measuring the response latency of OpenAIs WebRTC-based Realtime API
As Chad mentioned in his post last week, we have been diving into what OpenAI is doing with WebRTC. Over the last months, we actually did a full teardown and compared OpenAI’s Realtime API to what powers chatgpt.com. What intrigued us most was how to measure response latency. One of the key metrics for any […]
How Cloudflare Glares at WebRTC with WHIP and WHEP
WebRTC blackbox reverse engineering experts Gustavo and Fippo take a look at Cloudflare’s new WebRTC implementation, how Cloudflare uses the new WebRTC-based streaming standards WHIP and WHEP, and the bold pronouncement that they can be a replacement to open source solutions.
Meet vs. Duo – 2 faces of Google’s WebRTC
A very detailed look at the WebRTC implementations of Google Meet and Google Duo and how they compare using webrtc-internals and some reverse engineering.
Apple’s not so private relay fails with WebRTC
Apple released iOS 15 with iCloud Private Relay broken for WebRTC – it still divulges your IP address. This post walks through why and how the WebRTC API’s use your IP address information and how you can check what IP addresses are gathered.





