RTC@Scale 2024 – an event summary
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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Two weeks ago I participated in the IIT RTC Conference in Chicago. Only I wasn't in Chicago at all – I was sitting at my desk in my non-equipped room, giving a full session about WebRTC to an audience. It is something that is quite hard to do, as you can't really gauge the feelings of the people in the room.
I was asked to participate, and didn't want to say no, so I thought, why not speak about doing conferences remotely with WebRTC? This is what I had to do anyway to get things done, so why not dogfood it live?
Planning for the session got me to understand several things:
I had it all figured out in my head: I start off with something like OpenVRI – do a ad-hoc session – show off how a simple video chat can be different than what people are used for – move to tawk.com which I am using a lot (the background feels homey) – and from there, go on and use another WebRTC service that actually allows to do some decent screen sharing.
The problems I had…
I ended up going through about 10 different services until I finally closed on on the following "scenario":
You can find the result here:
[slideshare id=27305320&doc=iitrtc-webrtc-remotely-131017130343-phpapp01]RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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