A link
Nothing to install.
- A room address opens in the browser people already have
- Microphone and camera are asked for by the browser, not by us
- Works on a phone the same way it works on a laptop
Realtime
Rooms people join with a link.
A room is an address. Open it in a browser and you are in it — nothing to download, no account, no extension. The same room can sit inside your own page instead, behind your own sign-in, with one script tag.
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Two ways in
Your own page
One script tag.
- The client library is one file, with no build step
- The room is drawn where you put it, in your own layout
- Your service decides who is allowed in before it hands out the room
Rooms you create
Console or API.
- Created in the Orbit console
- Or created from the v1 API, like every other Orbit resource
- Named, resized, disabled and deleted the same two ways
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Who gets in
A room decides this before anyone is admitted, not after. It can require a passcode, and it can require the visitor to clear human verification at a named level — standard, strict or maximum — which is the same check Orbit Verify performs for a form. A room can also refuse the link entirely: turn link access off and the room answers nobody except the service you built on the API, so a room address that leaks buys nothing.
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Where a room runs
In one city. Everyone in a room meets on the same machine there, which is why a room says which city it is in and why that does not change once people are in it — moving it would drop everyone. The console shows the city. A room's size is set when it is created, and how many people in it may send video is set separately from how many may join, because a camera and a microphone do not cost the same thing to carry.
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Where this is
In preview. The rooms, the client library and the API are in place and in use. The product is switched on for an account by us rather than by signing up, and there is no self-serve button for it yet — ask, and say what you intend to run.
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Questions
Does anyone joining need an account?
No. A participant is somebody with a link. The account is yours, not theirs, and nothing asks them to create one.
Is a room recorded?
No. Orbit does not record rooms and stores nothing that was said or shown in one.
Can I put a room behind my own sign-in?
Yes, and that is what link access being switchable is for: turn it off, and only your own service can put somebody into the room.
What does human verification actually do here?
It runs before admission at the level the room asks for. A room set to maximum is not satisfied by a check performed at standard — the level is part of what is being checked, not a label on it.
Which browsers work?
The ones with the browser's own real-time media support, which is every current desktop and mobile browser. There is no plugin and no app.