VK Calls introduced the world’s first technology with an unlimited number of video call participants. About it informs press service “VKontakte”.
It is clarified that there are no restrictions on the inclusion of a video camera, microphone or call duration. This became possible thanks to the implementation of a proprietary horizontal call scaling technology. Another innovation is a separate “Calls” section for creating a call using a link, viewing call history, connecting to ongoing video and audio conferences.
The new feature will be appreciated by online event organizers. The update is available in the web version, VKontakte mobile applications, in a separate VK Calls desktop application, as well as in all VK products and partner resources that have connected the technology via the VK Calls SDK after the version update.
The service has all the tools for managing and moderating large calls. Conference administrators can mute all participants and control how they turn on by providing the floor when a participant uses Raise Hand.
In addition, the proprietary intelligent noise canceling technology will allow you to neutralize all extraneous sounds during a call. The “Waiting room” function will help to ensure privacy: it will be possible to enter the conference only after the organizer approves the application. At the same time, you can join the conversation anonymously without a profile on the VKontakte social network.
According to the technical director of VKontakte, VK Video and VK Calls Alexander Tobol, the leaders of the social network see a high interest of users in video calls – the monthly audience of the platform of group video calls is now 20 million. “In order to expand the scope of calls many times over, we got rid of all restrictions – including the number of participants in a video conference, now an infinite number of people can fully communicate in one call. To do this, we completely rebuilt the platform architecture and learned how to scale the call to any number of servers, as well as implemented solutions for server video transcoding and our own noise reduction and audio processing technologies. These and other in-depth optimizations have saved our users up to 60 percent of Internet traffic, reduced device load and battery consumption by 20 percent, and improved communication quality, ”he said.
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