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1. Virtual collaboration –
more than just video
conferencing?
by Igor Pavlov
CTO @ LyteSpark

2. Plan
• History of virtual collaboration and tendencies
• Growing video conferencing market and
WebRTC
• Video conferencing changing the way of
collaboration: use-cases
• WebRTC in virtual collaboration (main part)
• Is WebRTC the only tech for virtual
collaboration?
• Is the video conferencing in general a good
path?

3. VIRTUAL COLLABORATION
&VIDEO CONFERENCING
What is the relation between them?

4. Virtual collaboration
Natural data collection.
Tracking, search, data mining,
decision taking features.
Faster document collaboration.
Cheaper than office.
High availability due to
assortment of devices.
Video conferencing
Close to natural conversation.
Less noise and discomfort
during meetings or presentations.
Screen sharing and recording
features.
People cannot afford to be lazy.
Huge time and money saver.
Both virtual collaboration and video
conferencing have powerful advantages

5. Both virtual collaboration and video
conferencing can exists without each other.
But should they?

6. $X.XXbn
VIRTUAL
COLLABORATION
MARKET
$3.95bn
VIDEO
CONFERENCING
MARKET
SWEET
SPOT
Skype – 2003
2006 – Google Docs
Spot the tendency
Google Hangouts – 20132010 – Lync
Drive and Hangouts are tightly stacked
Skype integrates with Lync in 2015
Meetings.io – 2010
2001 – Jive
Meetings.io becomes a part of Jive in 2013

7. Biggest challenge for such a synergy is
existence of high expectations
User experience
Speed and slickness
Quality of audio and video
Browser and OS support
Hardware requirements
Unstable Internet
Client-Server-Client path

8. WebRTC is a nice way to
destroy those barriers
RTC – real time communication. This term includes both virtual
collaboration and video conferencing.
WebRTC is designed to bring those two areas removing the barriers and
making communication faster and better.
VIRTUAL
COLLABORATION
VIDEO
CONFERENCING
WebRTC

9. Why WebRTC is a good choice?
WebRTC is a stack of protocols, codecs and APIs. We should not forget
that WebRTC is not just a video conferencing technology. It is a
technology for real time communication.
P2P P2P is always faster than Client-Server-Client. No
man-in-the-middle possibility.
GetUserMedia Better hardware access UX
Fast messaging Messaging is useful not only for text chats, but for
system messages exchange as well
VP9, OPUS Higher quality, lower latencies, noise reduction, echo
cancellation etc.
File sharing Fast and secure file transmission

10. Video conferencing is essential for virtual collaboration as it makes a
conversation more personal and brings more information. It is a
tendency to use video conferencing in virtual collaboration.
However, not only video conferencing matters. Different use-cases
require extra features and UI in virtual collaboration:
WebRTC brings virtual collaboration and
video conferencing together
Suppliers Presentations, contracts Customers
Students Home works, exams Teachers
Patients Hospital database access Doctors
Trainers Training sessions Sportsmen
Networkers Speed dating Networkers
Programmers HTML-CSS collaboration Designers

11. Video conferencing is essential for virtual collaboration as it makes a
conversation more personal and brings more information. It is a
tendency to use video conferencing in virtual collaboration.
However, not only video conferencing matters. Different use-cases
require extra features and UI in virtual collaboration:
Is just video conferencing enough?
Suppliers Presentations, contracts Customers
Students Home works, exams Teachers
Patients Hospital database access Doctors
Trainers Training sessions Sportsmen
Networkers Speed dating Networkers
Programmers HTML-CSS collaboration Designers

12. Some bright examples in history
Released Initial reason Where now
Skype 2003 Cheaper calls Video conferencing, file
sharing, text messaging,
integrated with MS products
Basecamp 2004 Easier project
management
Text-based collaboration, file
sharing
Google Documents
(Google Drive)
2006 Real-time
document editing
Document collaboration
integrated with other Google
products, in cloud
Office
communicator
(Lync, Skype for
Business)
2007 Instant messaging Real-time communication,
example of integration of
video conferencing and
communication platforms
Dropbox 2008 Easier document
sharing
Document sharing and
integration
Join.me 2010 Easy screensharing Online meetings and
screensharing

13. How do people virtually
collaborate?
• Discussion
• Working on documents
• Developing an actual product

14. Goals
Virtual collaboration
Advantages
• Saves time
• Saves money
• Inspiring experience
Challenges
• Should be simpler
• Should cover all use
cases
• Should always work
Video conferencing