PhillyG, right off the bat thank you for your feedback.
Doing my best to respond to your queries.
1) This was the initial purpose of MeBeam; not having to start a video call and all the issues that go with this ( yes, having a bed head, or kids in the background)
To solve this, there is a few commands built into MeBeam which I have not made public as yet
If you type the following, ( fwd flash fwd slash fx = number ) applies a filter your image
to disable filters type the following and press go/return
//fx=0
to brighten in low-light type the following and press go/return
//fx=1
to darken type the following and press go/return
//fx=2
to blur your image type the following and press go/return
//fx=4
to extra blur your image type the following and press go/return
//fx=5
I will add an extra filter to blank your camera
//fx=6
2) To change the room or create a new one click on the options icon in the top right corner,
this will open the options screen and the last setting is 'change room' click on this
and a field will appear where you can enter another room name
3) Back in the day, I did everything I could to remove smut from the service ( 16 person multi video calls )
to no avail; I have some recent ideas which may help.
4) That's fine, if your on a device (such as a pc or laptop) which has a keyboard, you are not limited
to hitting the virtual keyboard; just use your normal keyboard and use the enter key to send
5) The camera description is not in the correct order ? .,. Assuming it is working besides the naming
of the camera, then it's a small bug I have introduced somewhere;
Info: MeBeam, a hybrid chat/image message board
Slogan: You see what I'm saying.
MeBeam is reboot of a relatively successful startup I had about 10 years ago.
The reason I wrote this service is because I guess it's a bit of an annoyance to get ready for a video chat if you're busy, don't look your best, or just don't want to.
MeBeam is something like a cross between instant messaging and imaging.
Messages are left on MeBeam using text and just as you send it, it takes a snapshot of you with your camera to further encapsulate the mood of the message.
There is no signup to MeBeam, you simply go to the site, and enter into or create a room and start messaging.
I have designed it to look and feel as much as possible like a native app, using PWA principles.
You can invite friends into a room using virtually any external app, (invite skype friends,messenger, sms etc)
There is no limit to the number of rooms you can create, either for public or private usage.
You can bookmark rooms for ease of use; and you can turn ON message alerts, so that any room you have bookmarked that receives a message while you are away, will send
you a notification via push.
The base engine uses canvas, so scrolling up and down is written from scratch to emulate a native mobile app as much as possible.
I have conducted a huge amount of alpha testing on my own, but am having issues especially with push notifications and all the different types of devices and configurations out there.
Second, as you can imagine without the need to signup there is a lot of smut that gets posted on MeBeam, and I would like to implement something between machine learned image recognition and moderation to handle the issue. (It is not an issue on private rooms)
Cpu usage is kind of high, but I will be optimizing that a lot - on older phones/tablets it can run fairly slow - but anything semi-modern it is very fast.
As having dabbled in NN's,speech,language recognition, I feel rightly ashamed that Aboriginal langauge has never crossed my mind (ever!); That's not the worse part,, I'm a native of Australia :(
FYI, echo cancel actually does work ( chrome definitely ),
just make sure you specify the audio constraint so that it has
a sample rate of 16khz ( aec does not work on the default 44/48khz modes )
