Back in October 2013, the relative early days of WebRTC, I set out to get a better understanding of the getUserMedia API and camera constraints in one of my first and most popular posts. I discovered that working with getUserMedia constraints was not all that straight forward. A year later
Amir Zamora asked me to comment on Object RTC (ORTC) for his WebRTC Topic of the Month series that now moved to his blog.
Here is what I had to say:
ORTC is net benefit for WebRTC and will only help to increase WebRTC adoption. I see two groups:
- those
For many years I have tried to keep track of how the traditional telecoms has fared against the emerging VoIP application world (what they sometimes derogatorily call “OTT”). I have had two hypotheses for several years now:
Traditional telecoms over the PSTN is past “peak” and will continue to decline
This is a problem that has bothered me for a while. You hear complaints that “millennials” don’t know how to talk on the phone. Messengers seem to have all the growth these days. It appears having a live conversation with someone in another location, a real time communication (RTC)
AT&T asked me to come out to their Developer Summit and give a talk on the Future of Real Time Communications as part of their Real Time Communications Track. I was happy to head out to Las Vegas ahead of CES and check out their hackathon, expo, and