Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site: “WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.” At Microsoft, we’ve seen tremendous support grow for WebRTC over the past five years. One of the most pivotal uses of WebRTC is building native video chat apps, which now reach more than one billion users. Google’s native supported platforms for WebRTC include iOS, Android and traditional Win32 desktop apps. On Windows, Microsoft Edge already supports ORTC APIs and now supports WebRTC 1.0 APIs in Insider Preview builds on Desktop devices. For example, if you need to build a WebRTC app in HTML/JS targeted at desktop browsers [ more… ]