Analysts expect WebRTC will be a market worth $4.7 billion by
2018
WebRTC, a free browser-based technology, looks set to change the
way we communicate and collaborate, up-ending telecoms firms, online chat
services like Skype and WhatsApp and remote conferencing on WebEx.
Web Real-Time Communication is a proposed Internet standard that
would make audio and video as seamless as browsing text and images is now.
Installed as part of the browser, video chatting is just a click away – with no
need to download an app or register for a service.
WebRTC allows anyone to embed real-time voice, data and video
communications into browsers, programs - more or less anything with a chip
inside.
Already, you can use a
WebRTC-compatible browser like Mozilla's Firefox to start a video call just by
sending someone a link.
Further ahead, WebRTC could add video and audio into all kinds
of products and services, from GoPro cameras and
educational software to ATMs and augmented reality glasses. Imagine,
for example, wanting to buy flowers online and being able, at a click, to have
the florist display arrangements to you live via a video link.
WebRTC will be a market worth $4.7 billion by 2018, predicts
Smiths Point Analytics, a consultancy. Dean Bubley, a UK-based consultant,
reckons over 2 billion people will be using WebRTC by 2019, some 60 percent of
the likely Internet population.
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