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title: "Watch WebRTC Live #65: The Impact of New Tech on WebRTC Applications – WebRTC.ventures"
description: For our 65th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed back Tsahi Levent-Levi to explore how new technologies such as WebCodecs, WebAssembly, WebTransport, and AV1 may affect the design and the development of WebRTC applications in the future.
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# [Watch WebRTC Live #65: The Impact of New Tech on WebRTC Applications – WebRTC.ventures](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/2022/03/webrtclive-new-tech)

 Written by [Jen Oppenheimer](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/author/jen-oppenheimer) | Mar 13, 2022 5:00:00 AM

On March 9, 2022, Arin welcomed Tsahi Levent-Levi to talk about how new technologies are going to affect the design and the development of WebRTC applications in the future. 

After a brief update on the acquisition of [testRTC](http://testrtc.com/) by [Spearline](https://www.spearline.com/), Tsahi jumped right in with the question of whether WebRTC has reached its peak after 10 years. 

Tsahi noted a few areas where WebRTC had a 4x increase in use:

- Work from home
- Remote work
- Healthcare
- Education
- New use cases, which will stay with us even after the pandemic is over. 

Tsahi traced the evolution of WebRTC from Exploration (2011-2014) to Growth (2015-2019) to Differentiation (2020+). 

## What’s Next for WebRTC?

- WebCodecs – a browser wrapper for audio/visual encoders/decoders; frame-level API, no MTI codecs
- WebTransport – provides missing infrastructure so we can pick and choose what we want to implement using Web Assembly on top
- WebAssembly – taking a language (C/C++, Go, Java …) and cross-combine them into a WebAssembly binary file which runs inside the browser itself. Enables us to be closer to the machine and to do things around machine learning that we could not before. 
- AV1 – only 3-4 years old – still too new, but it is coming! Av1 now mainly being used for screen sharing  or dealing with very low bitrates

## Table Stakes are Changing

The feature sets that are expected now are very different than before. For example, no one cared about background replacement a few years ago. Look for more about this in a future blog post from Tsahi on [bloggeek.me](http://bloggeek.me/).

**For much more from Tsahi on the topics above, including lots of great questions from our viewers:**

## [Watch Episode #65!](https://youtu.be/P5NFmDRBt5k)

****WebRTC Live Episode 6****6 **with IIT Professor Karl Stolley** *is *April 20 at 12:30pm Eastern*!*   
[Register](https://webrtc.ventures/webrtclive_registration/)

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