Top 10 Uses of Live Video in Modern eLearning Platforms

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eLearning with Live Video

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!

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How to add a video chat embed to your Wix website

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Add video chat embeds to your Wix Website

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:

  • Wix
  • Squarespace
  • Zoho Sites
  • Weebly (Business and above)
  • WordPress hosted account (paid)
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Cameras, Microphones and the Dawn of AI

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Cameras, microphones, AI and smartphones

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.

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Build WebRTC desktop apps with OpenTok and Electron

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Electron and OpenTok WebRTC

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.

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Unlocking The Full Potential of Live Video with Safari 11

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Safari 11 now available for OpenTok platform

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.

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Introducing our brand new Developer Evangelist!

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Manik Sachdeva TokBox Developer Evangelist

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.

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How Live Video is underwriting Insurtech Growth

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Live Video and Insurtech

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.

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Welcome Windows Developers!

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webrtc for windows sdk opentok

We’re happy to say that last week, as part of the 2.12 release of our client SDKs, we graduated the OpenTok Windows Client SDK out of beta. This SDK allows Windows developers to add rich, immersive video chat to Windows native applications and to really let their creativity flow. 

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How we test WebRTC live video sessions for massive audiences

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Test WebRTC framework for large scale broadcast

Co-authored by Tiffany Walsh, Patrick Quinn-Graham, and Michael Sander.

We recently announced the launch of our large-scale Interactive broadcast capabilities, including the option to publish to a wide variety of endpoints via RTMP and HTTP Live streaming. You can now broadcast to an audience of up to 3000 real-time viewers – and we know because we’ve been testing it to get it perfect, so that you don’t have to. Want to know how we test WebRTC sessions for huge audiences even though we only have a handful of people on our team? Read on!

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Safari 11 Support General Availability for OpenTok Platform

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Safari for WebRTC general availability

 

In June, we announced our latest beta, OpenTok.js SDK 2.12. With that release, developers could start building beta projects that are compatible with Safari 11, kicking off WebRTC availability in Safari for the first time. This release was announced at the WWDC keynote back in June, when Apple indicated WebRTC support for iOS 11.

Today, in light of Apple’s event, we’re excited to announce that WebRTC support for Safari 11 is here. With the number of devices that run the Safari browser, this provides greater device reach for TokBox customers and introduces a whole new set of use cases for browser based video chat.  

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