worldtalks camera

A real-time video chat in your browser requiring low bandwidth

Author, myf [$~: echo bXlmQHdvcmxkdGFsa3Mub3JnCg== |base64 -d]

Background:

We are trying to explore different compression algorithms that allows us to do real-time video chat with low bandwidth. The current version gives an idea of the participants by drawing their edges in a nearly cartoonie display. It then communicates through socket.io in node.js

To Run:

First of all install node.js

Get the repo from github

git checkout git://github.com/myf/wtcamera.git

cd wtcamera

Install Dependency (you may find most of the dependencies in package.json):

npm install

run it with

node .

test it for yourself or with friends on the same network at

localhost:8888