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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by tocomment on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:07PM (#5966783)
So could something like this replace Skype someday?
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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by frik on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:33PM (#5966880)
yes. but Microsoft has proposed a different protocol that is based on Skype technology ideas: http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-r...

Google and Mozilla are pushing the WebRTC: http://www.webrtc.org/

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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by josh2600 on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:17PM (#5967026)
Skype has two things WebRTC lacks:

A directory

And

Signaling

Without those things it's hard to compete with Skype or the PSTN.

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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by cmatthieu on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:20PM (#5967935)
Twelephone (http://twelephone.com) uses Twitter as its user directory and is almost at feature parity with Skype ;)
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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by BHSPitMonkey on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:48PM (#5968352)
"Almost at feature parity" is kind of an outrageous claim... I just gave it a try with a friend, and it was glitchy, our video was stretched out (on both ends), there's a big "More" button that does nothing, no file transfers, no screen sharing, not sure if conference calls are even supported, etc. If only there were an open-source private version of Google Hangouts.
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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by cmatthieu on Sunday June 30, 2013 @06:24PM (#5967496)
Yes, checkout http://twelephone.com from the same guys who wrote RTC Roulette. It's WebRTC-powered skype clone which attaches to Twitter for the user directory.
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Re:RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC by untog on Sunday June 30, 2013 @05:17PM (#5967254)
Yes, I find it much better to have my business meetings conducted with surprise strangers added.
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