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Henrik Joreteg
November 14, 2013
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Transcript
Making WebRTC Awesome CascadiaJS 2013 @HenrikJoreteg
WHAT DOES WebRTC MAKE YOU THINK OF?
Hype? Is it ready to use? Websockets re-invented What’s the
big deal?
Making animated GIFs! http://chat.meatspac.es
So what’s the big deal? it’s just another new web
technology.
TypedArray Expo 2013!
FlexBox Expo 2013!
NOPE
THIS IS AN ACTUAL THING: WebRTCExpo.com
CLEARLY SOMETHING UNIQUE IS GOING ON HERE
LET’S SORT THIS OUT
WHAT IS WEBRTC REALLY?
new RTCPeerConnection();
new RTCPeerConnection();
WebSockets SERVER CLIENT
WebRTC PEER PEER
low-latency peer-to-peer networking in the browser
WHY WOULD YOU CARE?
BUILD COOL SH!T
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
AUDIO / VIDEO
BUILD YOUR OWN TELECOM WITH JAVASCRIPT
SUPER INEXPENSIVE
PICTURE OF KIDS Talky.io
talky.io/{{ insert anything }}
None
None
~7,000k Video Calls Connected/Week
REAL
NOW
VIDEO or AUDIO or BOTH + SCREENSHARING*
WHAT ELSE?
SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS BABY MONITORS CONTROL ELECTRON MICROSCOPE INTERCOM SYSTEMS ALWAYS-ON
OFFICE PORTALS DISTRIBUTED TEAM COLLABORATION PEER-REPLICATED BROADCASTING PIRATE RADIO
P.S. THE QUALITY IS IMPRESSIVE
DATA CHANNELS!
HALF-BAKED BUT AMAZING
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
File Transfer?
YEP: https://www.sharefest.me/
WEB-BASED BIT TORRENT?
YEP: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
PEER-SEEDED CDN?
YEP: https://peercdn.com/
MULTI-PLAYER WEBGL GAMES?
YEP: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/webrtc-data-channels-for-great-multiplayer/
{{ YOUR IDEA }}
andyet.com
BUILDING SOFTWARE WE BELIEVE SHOULD EXIST
XMPP: FEDERATED COMMUNICATION
PHONE SYSTEMS ARE FEDERATED
WHO ARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF TELECOMS?
FACEBOOK GOOGLE MICROSOFT APPLE
FB MESSENGER HANGOUTS SKYPE FACETIME
FACETIME VOICE? LOLz!
NONE OF THEM FEDERATE WITH EACH OTHER
WEB-BASED FEDERATED ALTERNATIVE? WEBRTC + XMPP + JINGLE
None
https://otalk.im
Stanza.io https://github.com/legastero/stanza.io ! Jingle.js https://github.com/legastero/jingle.js
WEBRTC IS HERE
WebRTC needs more Open Web hackers
Tinkerability
DOM WebSockets hardware WebRTC jQuery socket.io Arduino SimpleWebRTC
SimpleWebRTC var webrtc = new SimpleWebRTC({! localVideoEl: 'localVideo',! remoteVideosEl: 'remotesVideos',!
autoRequestMedia: true! });! ! webrtc.on('readyToCall', function () {! webrtc.joinRoom('room name');! });!
SimpleWebRTC.com
PeerJS OpenTok RTCMultiConnection (https://www.webrtc-experiment.com)
feedback file bugs improve APIs push for interoperability
IsWebRTCReadyYet.com
CRAZY FAST PROGRESS
NOV. 2011 FIRST HEARD OF WEBRTC FROM CHRIS BLIZZARD AT
FIRST REALTIME CONF
JAN. 2012 FEASIBILITY INQUIRY FROM WORKFACE
JUNE 2012 INTERNAL DEMO FOR AT&T
JAN. 2013 att.js at CES
TODAY 1,000,000,000 WebRTC Capable Browsers
IN LESS THAN 5 YEARS WEBRTC WILL BE THE #1
WAY PEOPLE MAKE VOICE CALLS
THANKS! @HenrikJoreteg