The document discusses WebRTC, a free world-class VoIP engine enabling peer-to-peer real-time communication on the web with a massive user base and numerous applications, such as augmented reality and real-time streaming. It highlights significant statistics from Google and mentions challenges related to browser support, particularly with Apple's Safari and iOS devices. Additionally, it outlines the community involvement and the need for web technology education to effectively utilize WebRTC.

1. WebRTC
from * to Headline
MoNage Boston, 2016

2. About Me
23 September 2016 Chad Wallace Hart 2
Head of Strategic Products
https://www.voxbone.com
cwhart@voxbone.com
A blog for WebRTC developers
https://webrtcHacks.com
@webrtcHacks
Local WebRTC Meetup organizer
Next Meetup: Oct 4 @ Google
https://webrtcboston.com
@chadwallacehart
chad@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 technology
Media negotiation
Firewall/NAT Traversal
Audio codecs
Video codecs
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 users
Less than 3 years since launch

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Who uses WebRTC?

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Who uses WebRTC?

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Who uses WebRTC?

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Augmented Reality
https://webrtchacks.com/kurento/

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Emotion recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEoKzOt63ao

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Real Time streaming

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BitTorrent

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Content Delivery Networks

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Video game controllers

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Museum robots
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/special-event/after-dark

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Middle-out compression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2eqcCDoC6c&sns=tw

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Google’s 5-year stats
• 2 Billion+ WebRTC Browsers
• 1 Billion+ minutes/week
• 950+ companies & projects
• 5 Billion+ WebRTC app downloads
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/I0GqzwfKJfQ
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JwnW6v3OM0RfoDYrPPTJrDNeIpidgh7hF
_k5E1j2oKM/edit?usp=sharing

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Photo by Flickr user Allan (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
https://flic.kr/p/4XtJJM

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WebRTC is not available everywhere

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3 ways Apple hurts WebRTC
Safari Other Browser
Apps on iOS
WebView
for iOS
No support for desktop or mobile
70% of usage on iOS
No support for easy native apps
20% of time share vs. Browser,
Android, Desktop
No one else is allowed to make a
WebRTC Browser
30% of browser share on iOS

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There is hope…

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WebRTC support can be inconsistent
Old 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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WebRTC can be hard

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WebRTC requires you learn (or pay)
Web Technology Popular Open Source Framework
Web CMS WordPress, Joomla, Drupal…
Front-End Development jQuery, Ember.js, Angular.js, React..
Front-end Design Bootstrap, Material Design, …
WebGL Babylon, three.js, …
WebSockets Socket.io
WebRTC

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Signaling
STUN/TURN
Media server Photo by Flickr user Alex (CC BY-2.0)
https://flic.kr/p/9v7Kgx

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About standards…
23 September 2016

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🙂
23 September 2016
https://www.w3.org/TR/mediacapture-streams/
Ready to go!

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Still not done…
23 September 2016
https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/
🙁

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WebRTC is crushing it!
VoIP Technology Users after 5 years
WebRTC
>500M
(+billions of browsers/devices)
Skype 405M
VoLTE 185M
RCS 15M
IMS 13M

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Community
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New WebRTC code contributors/month on GitHub

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Leveraging the web to make it better

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About Me
23 September 2016 Chad Wallace Hart 41
Head of Strategic Products
https://www.voxbone.com
cwhart@voxbone.com
A blog for WebRTC developers
https://webrtcHacks.com
@webrtcHacks
Local WebRTC Meetup organizer
Next Meetup: Oct 4 @ Google
https://webrtcboston.com
@chadwallacehart
chad@chadwallacehart.com