Overview and demo of WebRTC By Riaz Virani

1. WebRTC: Real Time Video /
Audio For Your App
Riaz Virani

2. Riaz Virani
monokaicode.co
pennyforyourcode.com

3. attend.zoho.com

4. How Did We Get Here?

5. HISTORY! - Part 1
Once upon a time, we had slow internet limited to ISDN and dial up.
We used AOL Instant Messenger and RealPlayer.
Hell, Google was still a startup.
But then the gods gave us faster internet.
We started to video chat and watch endless videos of stupid house cats.
Yet the browser was still a fail.

6. HISTORY! - Part 2
We needed Skype and Flash to talk to grandma.
Nope, there was no native HTML5 solution for our nanna.
So…
webRTC baby!

7. What is WebRTC?

8. Key Pieces
GetUserMedia (camera and microphone access)
PeerConnection (sending and receiving media)
DataChannel (sending and receiving everything else)

9. What It’s Not
WebRTC Peer-to-Peer Audio, Video, or Data
WebSockets Bi-Directional Pipe Between Client and
Server

10. Server Side

11. Peer ⇔ Peer =

12. ! Peer ⇔ Peer =
Required 20%
of the time

13. This #$@&! can get complicated

14. Demo
https://www.monokaicode.co/webrtc_demo.html

15. Real Time Video Chat for Everybody!

16. Strengths = Weaknesses

17. Noooooooooooooooooo!

18. ORTC (Object RTC)
Originally designed by Robin Raymond of HookFlash in 2013
Removes WebRTC’s use of Session Description Protocol
Some think it’s too loose of an API
Google wants to merge both into
“WebRTC NV”
Microsoft is the only vendor who
supports ORTC

19. No Easy Solutions

20. Popular Providers
All-in-One Platforms
● OpenTok
● Twilio
Libraries
● PeerJS
● SimpleWebRTC
● Muaz Khan’s Libraries
● EasyRTC
Network Traversal
● Xirsys
● Twilio
● Bit6

21. Maybe this is the year...

22. But maybe not...
“Just 4% of participants in the Nemertes' 2015-16 Enterprise Technology benchmark said
they were using WebRTC today”
- NoJitter.com (2/3/16)
The Bottom Line

23. The End