A quick look at this month’s highlights
Products and Technology:
Agora Education aPaaS Dynamic classroom upgrade
Video call/Voice call/Interactive Live Native SDK upgrade version 3.4.2 is available
The Video call/Voice call/Interactive Live Broadcast Web SDK has been upgraded to version 4.5.0
Four versions of the interactive Whiteboard were released this month, with the latest version being 2.12.29
The local server recording SDK has been updated to version 3.0.6
RTC Community dynamics:
QCon Live Audio and Video special: Best Practices and Future prospects for Real-time interaction
First taste Agora Web SDK VUE!
The past, present and future of real-time voice quality monitoring systems
Agora is invited to attend ACE Education Summit. Agora has reached a partnership with HTC, enabling next-generation AR and XR technology innovation
Products and Technologies
Agora Education aPaaS Dynamic classroom upgrade
Agora Education aPaaS Product Mobility Classroom has been upgraded to v1.1.0. Sound net Agora Smart Classroom can help educational institutions and developers to launch their own brand, full function online interactive teaching platform in 15 minutes, saving 90% of development time. Smart Classroom was launched on January 20, and as of March 31, the number of registered users has exceeded 1,000, the number of supported classes has exceeded 500,000 per month, and the total number of students worldwide has exceeded 4 million.
In the new version of Smart Classroom, we address the previous problem of “UI is not easy to modify” by isolating UI code from business logic and providing UI Kit, which makes it easier for developers to modify and add UI controls. It not only ensures low code development, but also provides higher flexibility for customization. At the same time, in order to allow people to replace and add some functional modules of smart classroom, and even to increase functional modules according to their own business needs, we also added a custom plug-in function, namely ExtApp. You can like building blocks, some of their own classroom functions, such as countdown, answer, etc., add smart classroom.
More information in May
Video calling/Voice calling/Interactive Live Native SDK update is available in version 3.4.2. Access to local files through URIs is now supported on the Android version. On macOS, fixes USB device driver issues, and Rosetta translation issues. It also fixes a lag issue in interworking between 3.4.0, 3.4.1 and pre-3.0.0.
The Video Calling/Voice calling/Interactive Live Web SDK was upgraded to version 4.5.0 in May. Added echo cancellation for locally played audio in specific scenarios, optimized media stream security, added new encryption modes, and improved on-screen video sharing. We also released version 3.6.0 of the Web SDK in May (for users of older versions of the SDK), which fixes issues due to browser policy changes, and improves media stream encryption, video experience, and more.
Interactive Whiteboard has released four versions this month, with the latest version being 2.12.29. This month we added support for photo transparency, charts, and SmartArt as images to our dynamic PPT for interactive whiteboards.
The local server recording SDK has been updated to version 3.0.6.
We’ve also updated the Agora RTC SDK across multiple platforms, including Electron, Unity, Flutter, and React Native.
RTC community dynamics
QCon Live Audio and Video special: Best Practices and Future prospects for Real-time interaction
On May 29th, in the “QCon Beijing Global Software Development Conference”, the “real-time audio and video special” was initiated by Feng Yue, VP of Agora technology, as the feature producer, and invited technical experts from New Oriental, Panyu English and Agora. We shared the next generation video engine architecture, difficulties and jump of large-scale implementation of audio and video system, voice evaluation and localization practice, research and practice of front-end audio and video player and other topics.
First taste Agora Web SDK VUE!
Agora Beta Program is an interactive Program for developers of Voicenet. Through the Agora Beta Program, we hope to further narrow the distance between developers and Soundnet, listen to the voice of developers, and ensure that our future product planning meets the most real needs of developers.
Recently, we officially launched the VUE version of the Web SDK, aiming at the development of Web audio and video applications using the VUE framework, and made many improvements in terms of ease of use. This experience officer recruitment is for Web developers who use The Agora SDK of Sound Net. Developers can experience the different development experience of VUE version of Web SDK in the first time.
Scan code to experience the VUE version of the Web SDK!
The past, present and future of real-time voice quality monitoring systems
With the development of QoE evaluation system, the RTE industry increasingly hopes to have a set of real-time evaluation system that reflects the subjective experience of users. Last year, Sonnet began to study the real-time quality evaluation method of audio parts, and gradually found out the abnormal monitoring methodology of the whole audio link.
QoE evaluation system is always a hot topic in real-time interactive scenes. Soundnet has been working on a real-time quality assessment method for audio since last year. We’ve shared the tip of the iceberg with Sonnet before. On May 13th, in our live broadcast of “Agora Talk”, Zhao Xiaohan, audio algorithm engineer of SISA, introduced the development of sISA real-time voice quality monitoring system for developers, and discussed with everyone about the direction of future evolution.
Sound network dynamic
Sonnet Q1 2021 earnings report: Revenue of $40.23 million, a record high
Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API) today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021. Financial results show that in 2021 Q1 sound net revenue of 40.23 million US dollars, the same period last year for 35.6 million US dollars, year-on-year growth of 13%; Q4 2020 was $33.3 million, up 21% month-on-month and a record high. As of March 31, 2021, sonnet registered more than 306,000 applications globally, with a year-on-year growth of 67%. The number of active customers reached 2,324, up 98% year on year.
Agora was invited to attend ACE Education Summit
From May 18th to 19th, ACE 2021 Global Quality Education Industry Summit held by Ruiyi, a vertical media of quality education industry, was successfully held in Beijing. He Ting, vice President of Sonnet Agora, was invited to attend the summit and gave a speech on the theme of “Quality-oriented Education: Transformation in Real-time Interaction” at the Leadership Forum. He shared the help of real-time interactive technology to online classroom teaching effect and sonnet’s solutions in different quality-oriented education segments, which attracted wide attention from the educational institutions attending the summit.
Was recorded from the early to live, to live and interactive XR interactive live, from one-way interaction is given priority to, gradually to the real-time interactive broadcast era, the development process, the network has been deep in the education industry, provide for education institutions set of real-time audio and video, interactive whiteboard, screen sharing, real-time news, real time recording and oral assessment, and other functions of one-stop solution for online teaching. Thanks to its profound technical accumulation and professional advantages, Sonnet has become the first choice of real-time audio and video technology service provider for online education industry giants, unicorns and entrepreneurs.
Agora has partnered with HTC to enable next-generation AR and XR technology innovation
Agora (NASDAQ: API), the pioneer and leader of real-time interactive cloud services, announced a partnership with HTC. As part of HTC’s VIVE® Independent Software Vendor (ISV) initiative, the collaboration will accelerate innovation in VR technology for real-time interactive applications. HTC VIVE continues to build the leading virtual reality (VR) platform and ecosystem, dedicated to creating immersive VR experiences for enterprises and consumers. The ISV Partner program enables developers to create applications and platforms within HTC VIVE’s VR and XR ecosystems and seamlessly integrate Agora’s real-time audio and video, real-time messaging, interactive live streaming and other technologies.
With increasing demand for VR and XR technology innovation in consumer and enterprise markets, Agora’s partnership with HTC marks a pivotal moment in the integration of cutting-edge Metaverse scenarios with real-time interactive technology. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the consumer and enterprise markets will see continued demand and value for this scenario, and exploration and innovation in this area will bring new opportunities for teamwork, networking, employee training, workshops and many other scenarios.