Comments on: The Hidden Gems of WebRTC Goodness May Well Lie Within GetUserMedia Itself

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 04:33:25 +0000

In reply to Laurent. Laurent, definitely useful use cases. The question is - who would trust a web service like this sitting all day and watching them.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 04:32:31 +0000

In reply to Lawrence Byrd. Sure is an interesting space to look at.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 07:48:55 +0000

I too am very interested in streaming a canvas element to a peerconnection. But there are really cool things to do just with the camera feed. Imagine a tool that monitors your desktop activity and helps you take breaks or let’s you take nice screenshots, annotate them and share them? Or even record screencasts and upload them to YouTube, all inside your browser without any installation? Amazing.

By: Lawrence Byrd

Lawrence Byrd — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:43:55 +0000

As you say, Tsahi, we have spent a lot of time within the WebRTC world talking (70%+) about Peer Connections, ICE, codec standards, triangles and trapezoids that we tend to forget the fundamentals of just making it easy for JavaScript browser-apps to simply access the capabilities of the surrounding platform. Which is what GetUserMedia does for cameras and microphones – the shoestring API. The Mozilla work on making it easy to get streams from canvases etc. is another useful step. And this also means we should ensure that GetUserMedia keeps up with any and every other new platform media capability from thumbprint readers to tactile gloves and VR experiences :).