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    Features

    A studio-grade video stack in your browser

    4K Chat pairs modern browser APIs — WebRTC, WebCodecs, and Insertable Streams — with an architecture that has no media server in the middle. The result: cinematic quality, real privacy, calls that repair themselves, and cameras that join as participants instead of screen shares.

    Cameras as participants

    The thing nothing else does: extra camera sources join the call as real peers, at full resolution, with no server in the middle.

    Used for:Site monitoringRemote productionField service

    Cameras as peers

    A camera joins as its own participant with its own encrypted peer connection — not a screen share of a video window. IP camera bridging is still coming.

    Per-camera adaptive bitrate

    Each camera runs its own 7-rung resolution/FPS ladder and spends only the uplink left over after the humans are served.

    Host-approved admission

    Cameras stay dark until the host or a named delegate admits them — enforced at the publisher and at every receiver, revocable instantly.

    Multi-camera grid

    Drag-and-drop reordering, pin-and-focus with a filmstrip, per-tile mute, and fullscreen expansion for any feed.

    Picture and sound

    Modern browser APIs pushed as far as your hardware allows.

    Used for:Podcasts & interviewsHands-on training

    True 4K & 8K video

    AV1 and VP9 with Scalable Video Coding (SVC). Resolution follows your hardware and network — on every plan, including free.

    Hardware acceleration where available

    Browsers use GPU encode and decode when they can, which helps keep CPU use down at higher resolutions.

    Noise reduction

    Your browser's own suppressor plus a tuned high-pass filter, running on your machine before the encoder. Rumble drops about 11 dB while speech moves under half a decibel. No cloud round-trip, because your audio never leaves.

    Virtual backgrounds

    Your device blurs the background itself, using the same segmentation your OS uses — at full resolution and frame rate, with nothing uploaded. Shown where the platform supports it.

    Local recording

    Record straight to your device as WebM. Nothing is uploaded — you own the file.

    Topology

    Peer-to-peer with nothing in the media path.

    Used for:Hands-on trainingRemote production

    Direct peer-to-peer

    Media flows browser-to-browser over WebRTC. No SFU, no TURN, no relay service — your bytes stay yours.

    A full mesh

    Every participant connects directly to every other. Small rooms, zero re-encoding, zero added latency.

    Adaptive bitrate

    Continuous bandwidth probing tunes resolution and framerate per peer so calls stay smooth on flaky links.

    Always-on reliability

    Designed so a call can run for days without anyone rejoining.

    Used for:24/7 monitoringPlant-floor networks

    Unbounded recovery

    Escalating ICE restarts retry for as long as the call is open — no attempt limit that quietly ends your session.

    Media watchdog

    Frames are verified as actually arriving; silent tracks are re-negotiated before you notice them freeze.

    Live quality dashboard

    Real received resolution, bandwidth, RTT, codec, and topology — visible during every call.

    Privacy & control

    No accounts to join, no media we could hand over.

    Used for:Public safetyCamera admission

    End-to-end encryption

    DTLS-SRTP on every stream, plus optional per-frame E2EE via Insertable Streams and a 4-emoji Safety Number.

    Waiting room & host controls

    Approve joiners one-by-one, appoint delegates, remove disruptive guests, and lock the room.

    P2P data pipe (coming)

    A direct A-to-B channel for control, telemetry, files, LUT, and timecode. Not in-call chat. Not shipped.

    Everywhere you watch

    Same call, every screen — plus a hook for your own software.

    Used for:Classroom displaysTechnicians on phones

    Big-screen friendly

    Cast or mirror from your phone or PC to the living-room TV. There is no Smart TV store app today, but the web UI is keyboard-navigable for a lean-back setup.

    Native app shells (in development)

    macOS, Windows, iOS, iPadOS and Android shells around the same bundle. Offline entitlement caching already works — your plan is signed and verified on your device, so the app keeps working when we are unreachable. Store builds are not released yet.

    Embeddable widget

    Drop a call into your own site with an iframe widget and a postMessage API.

    AI agent integration (MCP)

    An OAuth-protected MCP server for agents is in development — not a public install path yet. No agent-escalation marketing until it ships.

    See it live

    Start a room in one click — no download, no signup.

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