WebRTC alternative to Skype, imminent or now?

Rob Pearson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
As discussed briefly at DunLUG last night, does anyone have experience 
playing around with WebRTC?  Bob got a demo going in a few seconds after 
installing Chrome.

WebRTC is still under development, it may be good enough, the ways it 
can be implemented are enormous.  This particular demo could be good 
enough to put on an Intranet for none-critical playing with, possibly 
even for use: 
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/making-webrtc-simple-with-conversat-io/ "multi-user 
video calls with no account and no plugins, just by going to a url in a 
modern browser. Anyone who visits that same URL joins the call"

I was asked last week to add video conferencing between sites at my 
workplace, so maybe we'll play with this demo to start with. Firefox 
will ship with WebRTC in stable soon.  There'll be some pressure for 
Skype due to external users,  but if we get particular implementation 
working then maybe a link on our public facing website would suffice.

Rob

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