6 months of WebRTC in 10 Minutes

WebRTC Boston #4October 4, 2016

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About Me

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Head of Strategic Productshttps://www.voxbone.comcwhart@voxbone.com

A blog for WebRTC developershttps://webrtcHacks.com@webrtcHacks

WebRTC events & videoshttps://www.krankygeek.com/@webrtclive

@chadwallacehartchad@chadwallacehart.com

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So what is WebRTC?

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World Class VoIP Engine for Free

media engine

video codec

audio codec

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Internet & Web Standard

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3(ish) Web-friendly(+native) API’s

Peer-to-peer RTC connectivity

peerConnection

Stream Capture

getUserMedia

Arbitrary p2p data transmission

dataChannel

Camera, Microphone, Screen

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State of the art technologyMedia negotiation

Firewall/NAT Traversal

Audio codecs

Video codecs

Real-time flow controls

Encryption

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Massive community

.org

Too many projects to put on a slide

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This is awesome!

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Who uses WebRTC?

WebRTC details: https://webrtchacks.com/facebook-webrtc/Image source: http://www.nerddict.com/2016/06/download-facebook-messenger-for-windows.html

300 million monthly active usersLess than 3 years since launch

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Who uses WebRTC?

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WebRTC After 5 years: Google’s stats

2 Billion+ WebRTC Browsers1 Billion+ minutes/week950+ companies & projects5 Billion+ WebRTC app downloads

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/I0GqzwfKJfQhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JwnW6v3OM0RfoDYrPPTJrDNeIpidgh7hF_k5E1j2oKM/edit?usp=sharing

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Let’s talk about browser support

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Microsoft Edge is making steady progress

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/status/screencapture/?q=category%3Arealtimecommunication

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No IE, but lots of MicrosoftOld Browser New Browser Comms App Native App

❌ ✔ ✔ ✔>500M users >100M users >300M MAU >350M Win 10 users

+ 8.1 install base

No support planned ORTC + WebRTC support Skype for Web moving to WebRTC

Adding Visual Studio tooling that includes WebRTC

WebRTC at Microsoft

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Apple still rotten

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Not completely lost on the Safari…

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https://www.w3.org/TR/mediacapture-streams/

Ready to go!

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Still not done…

https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/

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WebRTC is crushing it!

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New WebRTC code contributors/month on GitHub

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