Eye Webinar: A Web-Based Communication Platform for Seamless Remote Education

As our world grows increasingly digital, the ability to communicate remote is essential, whether for personal or professional reasons. Remote meetings are often limited to time, cost, and logistical constraints—the latter of which can be exacerbated during global disruptions. To address some of these issues, we present Eye Webinar, a real-time video conferencing web application that enables quality communication in a browser through video and audio with multiple users. Eye Webinar takes advantage of WebRTC, a free, open-source, technology that allows peer-to-peer real-time compressed audio, video, and data to be sent using simple JavaScript APIs. Built on the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js), we employed current best practices in web developing to create a reliable and scalable conferencing application. Our key features include live video / audio calls, direct chatting, screen sharing, file sharing, and user authentication. Eye Webinar seeks to provide highquality, cross-device compatible communication with easy-to-use interfaces to make to the product more accessible for collaborative use in education, corporate communication, emergency services, and remote assistance. This research paper will explain the technical rationale behind our application design, development approach, and the social impact of providing a new secure, extensible web-based conferencing application.