Picture this: you are outside in a park and attending a meeting using your Android phone with a cool OpenTok-based application, but suddenly you need to check some information from a different app on your phone. Currently, your only option would be to put the original app in the background, and stop seeing the rest of the people in the meeting while you check that information.
Over 10 years of TokBox, we’ve seen first hand that not all video communication experiences are created equal. Ever wanted to throw your computer out the window after a clunky and frustrating attempt at a video call on whichever app was chosen by your employer/family/friends?
We’ve been there too, and we feel your pain. So we’ve been working tirelessly at TokBox to create a flexible platform which will allow you to build the optimal video experience for your use case.
If you have an iPhone, chances are that you have already upgraded to the latest version of iOS. In its 11th version, Apple has introduced many new things. As usual, some of them are related to the new hardware, others improve and polish the well-known iOS formula. But there is one thing that is completely new and will bring a new type of applications that never existed before at this scale. We are talking about Augmented Reality (or AR) applications, and the Apple SDK ARKit.
TokBox has recently published a range of eLearning white papers and short guides on the topics of AI in Education, Tutoring, Proctoring, Virtual Classrooms and Robots. Click links to download.
We are inspired by our many customers who are working in many different ways to enhance eLearning applications with the power of live video, bringing educational opportunities to broad global audiences with richer student experiences. TokBox is very pleased to to invite John Leh to author this guest blog on video use cases for eLearning. John is CEO and Lead Analyst at Talented Learning with decades of experience with learning management systems and eLearning approaches. He is also “fiercely independent” and all opinions expressed in this article are his own. Welcome, John!
Recently, TokBox introduced Video Chat Embeds enabling you to add real-time communication to your website with just a few lines of code. Video embeds can be easily integrated into websites built on any of the following platforms:
Some 40,000 years ago, our distant ancestors were recording vivid images of the world they saw around them onto the walls of caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and on the walls of El Castillo cave in northern Spain.
These paintings are believed to be the earliest works of art made by humans and they point to a long history of our need to record and communicate information in a visual manner – and of our ability to process and take meaning from these visual cues. Our brain has evolved to process these cues quickly and efficiently so that we can react and survive.
TokBox is pleased to announce that with the release of OpenTok.js v2.12, OpenTok now officially supports Electron, allowing developers to build hybrid desktop applications which combine native APIs and web development to create native-like applications.
Apple has started rolling out iOS 11 and macOS 10.13, and with these releases, developers can now start to build production ready applications for Safari on the OpenTok platform, as we announced in our last post in mid-September.
With support for Safari, we’re able to further the benefits of the OpenTok platform, focused on scale, reliability and quality, empowering developers drive creativity through communications.
Hey everyone, my name is Manik and I’m happy to say I’ve recently joined TokBox as the Developer Evangelist.
I’m extremely excited to be a part of a company that’s creating an ecosystem for real-time communication. OpenTok allows users to take full control of implementing video and audio chat, as well as messaging, into their Web, iOS, Android, and Windows products. It’s awesome to see how developers all over the world are using the API and I’m looking forward to seeing many more creative ideas in the future.
Live Video is a key capability within Insurtech apps that are disrupting the insurance industry. In this blog you will learn more about Insurtech and the role of Live Video in Insurance applications.
TokBox attended the excellent InsureTech Connect conference in Las Vegas on October 3-4, 2017. If you were not able to talk to us there, please contact us to discuss your Insurance use cases. You can also download our Insurance Datasheet for more information about our platform.
