🌟 Named one of the top 10 Honorable Mentions in Dolby.io Hackathon

There are so many conferencing applications available, but when it comes to personalization and immersive user experience, the majority of them fall short.

React Room is a web-based audio/video conferencing application that makes use of Dolby's communication APIs to provide a more immersive and personalised experience for the user. It has an adaptive user interface that adjusts to instances like changes in the number of participants. It also has a voice command assistant that responds to voice commands with a variety of actions. React Room also has a variety of themes that participants can customise to their liking.

I created the UI with React/Redux Js and used Dolby APIs to set up communication/conferences between participants, Firebase for user authentication, Cloudinary for image and asset storage, Unsplash Api for various room backgrounds, and Netlify for hosting.

One of the most difficult challenges was propagating a change to all participants; for example, if one user shares a screen, the UI of all participants must adapt to it (thought of using firebase's real-time database but found a workaround in react). Another major challenge was creating a voice assistant and comparing voice inputs to existing commands. I attempted to use external text comparison APIs, but it took a significant time. So I created a dataset of the most likely commands for a specific action, as well as some instruction commands for new participants.

Putting together a whole conferencing application with voice assistant.🙂

I learned a lot about web-based communication and Dolby's voxeet SDK. I learned more about React and Redux by resolving numerous bugs and errors.

I'll add more features to it, such as hostcontrols and past conference records storage.