RTC should be as natural in a web app as entering text in a text input. One of the last major challenges for the web is to enable human communication through voice and video: real-time communication or RTC for short.

Having trouble with your machine and WebRTC? Visit the WebRTC Troubleshooter.Īlternatively, jump straight into the WebRTC codelab, a step-by-step guide that explains how to build a complete video chat app, including a simple signaling server.

Can’t wait and just want to try WebRTC right now? Try some of the more-than 20 demos that exercise the WebRTC JavaScript APIs.

To learn how WebRTC uses servers for signaling, and firewall and NAT traversal, see the code and console logs from appr.tc.

To learn about the RTCPeerConnection API, see the following example and RTCPeerConnection.

If you haven't used the getUserMedia API, see Capture audio and video in HTML5.

To get an overview of WebRTC, watch the following Google I/O video or view these slides: Haven't got time to read this article or only want code?

Open the URL displayed at the end of the page in a new tab or, better still, on a different computer.

Click Join to join a chat room and let the app use your webcam.

A good place to start is the simple video chat app at appr.tc: Want to try it out? WebRTC is available on desktop and mobile in Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Imagine it was easy to add video chat and peer-to-peer data sharing to your web app. Imagine a world where your phone, TV, and computer could communicate on a common platform. WebRTC is a new front in the long war for an open and unencumbered web.īrendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript Real-time communication without plugins

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