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I really like the concept, but I don't understand why you guys are building an entire video conferencing platform. That sounds like years of work building the n
by tpae 2y ago
I really like the concept, but I don't understand why you guys are building an entire video conferencing platform. That sounds like years of work building the network and millions of VC funds. It could be a standalone app that exports video to existing conferencing services. I would pay good money for that.
- michaelmior 2y agoBy export I assume you mean as a virtual webcam? I would definitely prefer that as a user to be able to use any videoconferencing app.
- christiansafka 2y agoThanks! We have a virtual camera on our roadmap as well, but by building the conferencing platform end to end we can optimize both latency and conversation UX to a much higher degree. We're also lucky to be building this now and not five years ago - there are some solid webrtc infra companies and open source projects to build on.
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- AznHisoka 2y agoWould companies switch their video conferencing solution to yours, or do you envision them using both side by side?
- christiansafka 2y agoWe're hoping companies with international teams will switch over fully (we have internally), but our initial goal is to attract a subset of the market that has cross-lingual needs and unblock them as much as possible from using it more.
- elwillbo 2y agoWould love the virtual camera - will be on the look out for it to arrive
- btown 2y agoCurious about this approach! It looks like you're connecting to https://livekit.io/ https://livekit.io/ under the hood - do you have custom server side components intercepting the video stream and doing video analysis & lip movement patching there? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743327 - looks like they do quite a bit of heavy lifting out of the gate!