A quick look at this month’s highlights
Products and Technology: Agora real-time audio and video service HTC VIVE Sync App is officially launched, supporting non-VR users to release version 1.1.2 of “Smart Classroom” and two versions of “Interactive Live broadcast”. The interactive Whiteboard has been released in three versions this month, with the latest version 2.13.4 Agora Streaming Kit released in 1.1.2
RTC community dynamic: is there a “sound” gather together | RTE 2021 programming challenge successfully packaged RTC Dev Meetup | front-end circuit technology salon
Virtual office, virtual exhibition, virtual idol, what else can RTE+XR do? Sound net Agora product information conference first stop ended in Beijing
Products and Technologies
HTC VIVE Sync App is available for non-VR users
The Agora video SDK is now integrated into HTC VIVE Sync App, the leading VR/XR remote collaboration and conferencing application.
By integrating the VIDEO SDK of Agora, HTC VIVE Sync App enables HTC VIVE users and non-VR users to have closer and seamless remote collaboration in the same virtual environment. Users will be able to share immersive experiences with other VR users without having to wear VR devices. In addition, users can also achieve screen and document sharing in a collaborative environment, making it easier and faster for all participants to experience the immersive experience, improving communication efficiency and productivity. The HTC VIVE Sync App is powered by Agora real-time audio and video technology, seamlessly connecting the virtual and real worlds to create the perfect remote collaboration tool.
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More information in June
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Smart Classroom released version 1.1.2. Added countdown, media device management, screen sharing annotation, HTML5 courseware and other functions. In the module of custom user attributes and class attributes, version 1.1.2 supports developers to customize user attributes and class attributes, as well as support for updating attributes and listening for attribute updates. For example, developers can set the avatar of a user by customizing user attributes.
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Video call SDK and voice call SDK, the latest version is 3.4.5. This version supports running Agora iOS SDK App on M1 Mac real phone, supports high security GCM encryption GCM2 for salt setting, Beta released virtual background function, provides perfect playback control and state callback mechanism for background music file playback. Synchronization improves the state callback of CDN push stream, custom video source and media device. Meanwhile, “Interactive Live” has also been updated to version 3.4.5.
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The interactive Whiteboard client has been updated with three versions this month, the latest version is 2.13.4. The latest version of the interactive whiteboard for the Web browser console printed several error messages, unable to parse the dynamic PPT without tablestyle. XML file, text input box abnormal behavior and other problems have been repaired; Fixed an issue on iOS where users could still operate the IFrame plug-in when disableDeviceInputs were set to true.
We’ve also updated the Agora RTC SDK across multiple platforms, including Electron, Unity, Flutter, and React Native.
RTC community dynamics
RTE 2021 Programming Challenge comes to a successful conclusion
On June 12, “RTE 2021 Programming Challenge”, co-hosted by Agora and Huanxin, came to a successful conclusion. The 46 finalists, out of more than 200 participating teams, concluded the competition that lasted more than two months with excellent answers. This year’s “RTE 2021 Creative Programming Challenge” is divided into two tracks: The Application Innovation Track continues the theme of “Developing apps with The Sonnet Agora SDK”; Technical innovation track developers can “develop self-developed plug-ins and functional demos by using the acoustic cloud market plug-in interface”.
The final and award presentation of the competition were conducted online through Agora Video Call App, and the whole process was broadcast live through STATION B. In the final, the first, second and third prize teams, one huanxin Special Award and six excellence Award were born in the final. Technology innovation track “Technology Innovation special Award”, “excellence Award” one. Final details can click to view: a “sound” gather together | RTE 2021 programming challenge successfully packaged
RTC Dev Meetup | Front-end technology Roving Salon
Being a good front-end engineer requires the ability to get started quickly, but the speed of iteration of front-end technology is obvious. It is important for front-end developers to understand how different technologies are and how they are evolving. The community held a front-end technology roving salon for developers, and in July we invited experienced technical experts in the industry to share their insights in the process of practice and their insights on the development of front-end technology.
Details: July 17, 2021 (Beijing); 24 July 2021 (Shanghai); August 7th, 2021 (Chengdu)
Scan the qr code above, you can register!
Sound network dynamic
What has Agora done in the past year
On June 26, 2020, Agora was listed on NASDAQ. The stock code is API, becoming “the first global real-time interactive cloud stock”. The successful listing is an important milestone in recognition of the value of our past professional services and technology. At the same time, it is a new starting point for us to realize our vision of “making real-time interaction as ubiquitous as air and water”. In Q1 of 2021, the monthly average real-time audio and video usage of Sonnet exceeded 50 billion minutes for the first time, reaching a new high in history. In Q1 2021, just released last month, total revenue hit an all-time high of $40.23 million; More than 306,000 applications were registered globally, up 67% year on year. The number of active customers reached 2,324, up 98% year on year. We serve customers in more than 200 countries and regions around the world. This is the result of the combined efforts of all the developers, customers, partners, and soundnet partners to create amazing applications such as live chorus, smart work lights, telephoto, space killing, metasomes, and more. For more on Agora’s one-year anniversary, check out: Agora’s one-year anniversary
Listen together, watch together, set off a social wave of generation Z youth
On June 5th, Agora and Renren Are product managers jointly held a salon with the theme of “Social pan-entertainment APP operation growth and New gameplay analysis” in Chengdu. The site focuses on the analysis of the new social pan-entertainment gameplay and the new opportunities, payment pain points, growth, operation and other aspects of in-depth discussion, full of dry goods. The scene attracted more than 100 local practitioners in the field of social and extensive entertainment in Chengdu. The salon invited Gao Shengkai, social and pan-entertainment product expert of Sonnet Agora, Raven Liu, Business Director of Airwallex, Wang Lei, Business Development Director of Amazon Cloud Technology – Sichuan Pan-entertainment industry, assistant president of AdTiming, Yan Wen, former overseas marketing director of Camera 360, shared their views on real-time interactive play of pan-entertainment scenes, the influence of overseas payment environment on pan-entertainment going abroad, how to quickly build pan-entertainment applications, methodology of product operation growth and other topics. 🔗 For more details
Virtual office, virtual exhibition, virtual idol, what else can RTE+XR do?
On June 10, 2021, HTC VIVE held a new product experience conference and developer Customer Conference in Beijing with the theme of “Convergence · To the World”. Nearly 300 XR industry elites gathered to witness the first public debut of HTC VIVE all-in-one VR VIVE FOCUS 3 and innovative professional PC-VR VIVE PRO 2. And bring a number of outstanding cutting-edge application cases, demonstrating the latest trends and outstanding achievements of XR industry technology. As one of the first companies to join HTC VIVE ISV Partner program, Agora was invited to attend the conference and had in-depth discussions on ISV partner program, VR/XR, real-time interaction and other topics.
At present, Wipro, the world’s leading information technology, consulting and business process service company, HiLeia communication platform under BRIGHT Wind Platform, AR+AI enterprise service provider Bright Vision released AR glasses GLXSS ME (Multi-Edition), All remote assistance products of Nibiru adopt real-time audio and video solutions provided by Agora, which are widely used in collaborative office, intelligent manufacturing, telemedicine, remote power maintenance and many other scenarios. 🔗 Click here to read the full story
Agora product information conference ended in Beijing
On June 30th, Agora Channel audio Network product Publicity conference was held in Beijing (the first stop). Nearly 100 product and technical practitioners from cooperative enterprises were invited to attend the conference. Lv Zhen, head of Agora RTC product, Qin Zexiong, head of Agora front-end SDK, Zhu Zhaohua, head of Agora product market respectively focused on “Interpretation of RTC technology” and “how to develop low-delay SDK”. And “real-time interactive scene and product innovation” and other topics for in-depth discussion and exchange, and on-site one-to-one questions and answers. Sound net product information conference aims to deepen the communication with cooperative customers, to provide customers with better quality, high stability, high availability of real-time audio and video services.