October 2022 Summaries

Daily is a video and chat feature that has greatly improved the accessibility and effectiveness of EMDR therapy by providing therapists with a seamless and secure way to deliver care remotely. The integration of Daily with Easy EMDR's platform has resulted in significant time and revenue savings, as well as increased patient engagement and conversion rates. With HIPAA compliance and easy-to-use features, Daily has enabled Easy EMDR to expand its services and make life-changing therapies more accessible and affordable for all who need them. The company's mission is now more achievable, with a robust platform that can provide telehealth and other services for therapists to deliver therapy in-person or remotely to patients seamlessly and securely.

The article describes how to integrate cursor sharing features with Daily using vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and daily-js. The demo creates a video call on the left and displays content for participants to review together on the right. When participants position their mouse over the content area, other participants can see their cursor position on their own screens. The implementation uses Daily's "app-message" events to communicate cursor coordinates between participants. It also handles performance and space considerations by only broadcasting data when the cursor has paused for 100 milliseconds. The code sets up a handler for the "joined-meeting" event, which starts monitoring local mouse movement and sends data to other participants when the cursor moves. When a participant leaves the call, their cursor is removed from the DOM. The implementation uses CSS transitions to create a smooth repositioning effect for the remote cursors.

This post explores how to handle video and audio features in a social game using Daily's Client SDK. It covers the basics of daily's track properties, retrieving participants' tracks, updating media tracks on DOM elements, and handling playback issues. The post also discusses common pitfalls and recommendations for rendering media tracks in the DOM, including when to use separate HTMLVideoElement and HTMLAudioElement elements.