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Re:Amazon Echo Show by Spoom on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:19PM (#14303465)
That is supposed to be what WebRTC is for. But major companies with their own motives are running the the major video chat solutions.
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Re:Amazon Echo Show by seanp2k2 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:03PM (#14305627)
XMPP too. It can do video calling: https://xmpp.org/about/technology-overview.html

Sad that Google + Facebook pulled out of federation a long time ago. We could have had bring-your-own-client cross-network all of this stuff. We still can, but realistically we won't.

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Re:Amazon Echo Show by MurMan on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:56AM (#14305996)
WebRTC defines how the browser supports audio/video/chat endpoints. A practical video calling system needs servers to manage firewall traversal, a directory of users, and ways to admin the system.

Who's going to provide that at no cost?

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