to create a free invite for ~15 minute session for up to 5 people.
Use cases for this include:
- Training and support for web applications and websites
- Product demonstrations
- Interactive browser screen sharing for meetings
- Watching movies together
- Strange new fun games
- Purchasing a set of items together, "group shopping"
Fwiw, the title is a little misleading. It should actually be "shared remote browser sessions over WebRTC, falling back to WebSocket where unavilable", and include the asterisk that WebRTC is only used as a data channel between the remote server and your browser, a faster UDP/SCTP way to send viewport frames. It's not a p2p "browser mesh" as cool as that might be. The browser runs headless on a remote server, and people connect to it.
Some things on my todo list:
- cookies on audio endpoint (anyone can actually connect to any remote browser's audio out, AUDIO IS NOT SECURE, but all other endpoints and sockets are protected by authentication)
- add participants count
- add payment for sessions of longer than 15 minutes or greater than 5 people
for those interested, the browser part is mostly public domain open-source at: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS I say mostly because the product versions contain secret sauce, magic and enhancements not in the public domain version.
For a minute I put "https://comebrowsewithme.com:8002/" in one of the browser tabs and the ui started slowing down until it was unusable - I couldn't help myself :P
Ya interesting idea. I played a video with the perfect strangers theme song and intro. I couldn’t tell if anyone was watching with me and the audio didn’t come through any suggestions?
Hey, cool song choice! :) Sorry audio will not work on this 8002 port demo, but audio works fine if you go to https://comebrowsewithme.com create a meeting and send the invite to people. Honestly I don't know why that is. As for not knowing if anyone is watching with you, on my todo list is add a participant count. There's also a chat tab in the menu at right that I want to surface.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 41.2 ms ] threadIf you want your own private one to share with anyone you give the invite to, go to:
https://comebrowsewithme.com
to create a free invite for ~15 minute session for up to 5 people.
Use cases for this include:
- Training and support for web applications and websites
- Product demonstrations
- Interactive browser screen sharing for meetings
- Watching movies together
- Strange new fun games
- Purchasing a set of items together, "group shopping"
Fwiw, the title is a little misleading. It should actually be "shared remote browser sessions over WebRTC, falling back to WebSocket where unavilable", and include the asterisk that WebRTC is only used as a data channel between the remote server and your browser, a faster UDP/SCTP way to send viewport frames. It's not a p2p "browser mesh" as cool as that might be. The browser runs headless on a remote server, and people connect to it.
Some things on my todo list:
- cookies on audio endpoint (anyone can actually connect to any remote browser's audio out, AUDIO IS NOT SECURE, but all other endpoints and sockets are protected by authentication)
- add participants count
- add payment for sessions of longer than 15 minutes or greater than 5 people
for those interested, the browser part is mostly public domain open-source at: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS I say mostly because the product versions contain secret sauce, magic and enhancements not in the public domain version.
- handle screen resize "jank" (resize squabbling) from multiple people with different screen sizes connecting) ;)