When most people think of WebRTC they think of video communications. Similarly, home surveillance is usually associated with video streaming. That’s why I was surprised to hear about a home security project that leverages WebRTC not for video streaming, but for the DataChannel. WebRTC’s DataChannel might not demo as well as a video call, but […]
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How Zoom’s web client avoids using WebRTC (DataChannel Update)
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2018. Zoom recently started using WebRTC’s DataChannels so we have added some new details at the end in the DataChannels section. Zoom has a web client that allows a participant to join meetings without downloading their app. Chris Koehncke was excited to see how this […]
Finding the Warts in WebAssembly+WebRTC
A while ago we looked at how Zoom was avoiding WebRTC by using WebAssembly to ship their own audio and video codecs instead of using the ones built into the browser’s WebRTC. I found an interesting branch in Google’s main (and sadly mostly abandoned) WebRTC sample application apprtc this past January. The branch is named […]
First steps with QUIC DataChannels
Note: as of March 2021 both experiments no longer work in Chrome. QUIC-based DataChannels are being considered as an alternative to the current SCTP-based transport. The WebRTC folks at Google are experimenting with it: Looking for feedback: QUIC based RTCQuicTransport and RTCIceTransport API's are available as origin trial in Chrome 73 for experimentation.https://t.co/KVVEVmggms — WebRTC […]
Part 2: Building a AIY Vision Kit Web Server with UV4L
In part 1 of this set, I showed how one can use UV4L with the AIY Vision Kit send the camera stream and any of the default annotations to any point on the Web with WebRTC. In this post I will build on this by showing how to send image inference data over a WebRTC […]