robfig

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Comment · 3 years ago

We developed this for Roam (https://ro.am/ [1]). Roam is a virtual office environment for real-time collaboration - audio, video, whiteboards, personal offices, team rooms, theaters and group chat with ML-enabled tools layered on top. It's based on Chromium & WebRTC so that we can ship a cross-platform app (Electron) as well as a nearly-parity Web client with a tiny team.

We've had a good experience with this approach, although it is far from plug-and-play. We do have to identity and patch items in Chromium/WebRTC & the server (Pion) interaction to get our video quality up to compete with Zoom/Teams/Meet. We are able to effectively compare video quality across these providers and expect to reach their video quality with this stack.

Disclaimer: I work on Roam's Chat, AI, and API.

[1] We are currently in closed beta so there's not much there at the moment.