The hardest part of building Hoovik — my open-source AI-powered meeting platform — wasn’t WebRTC signaling or media pipelines.

It was managing real-time multimodal inference (PyTorch, MediaPipe, AudioWorklets) across distributed services without blocking the event loop or exhausting memory when packets drop, connections fluctuate, or webcams disappear.

🔗 https://dev.to/anupam_kumar/the-hardest-part-of-building-an-ai-powered-webrtc-platform-wasnt-webrtc-19bl

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Hoovik: The Hardest Part of Building an AI-Powered WebRTC Platform Wasn’t WebRTC

I spent the last few months building Hoovik — a video conferencing platform that watches...

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"The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality. According to an app called MorphCast, I was, in a recent meeting with my boss, generally “amused,” “determined,” and “interested,” though—sue me—occasionally “impatient.” MorphCast, you see, purports to glean insights into the depths and vagaries of human emotion using AI. It found that my affect was “positive” and “active,” as opposed to negative and/or passive. My attention was reasonably high. Also, the AI informed me that I wear glasses—revelatory!

The bad news is that software now purports to glean insights into the depths and vagaries of human emotion using AI, and it is coming to watch you. If it isn’t already: Morphcast, for example, has licensed its technology to a mental-health app, a program that monitors schoolchildren’s attention, and McDonald’s, which launched a promotional campaign in Portugal that scanned app users’ faces and offered them personalized coupons based on their (supposed) mood. It is one of many, many such companies doing similar work—the industry term is emotion AI or sometimes affective computing.

Some products analyze video of meetings or job interviews or focus groups; others listen to audio for pitch, tone, and word choice; still others can scan chat transcripts or emails and spit out a report about worker sentiment. Sometimes, the emotion AI is baked in as a feature in multiuse software, or sold as part of an expensive analytics package marketed to businesses. But it’s also available as a stand-alone product, and the barrier to entry is shin-high: I used MorphCast at no cost, taking advantage of a free trial, and with no special software."

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/

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The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.

The Atlantic

Emotional marketing connects brands with consumers’ feelings, turning products into must-haves. By leveraging storytelling, neuromarketing, and Emotion AI, brands build trust, loyalty, and engagement. Inclusive messaging, interactive content, and AI-driven personalization deepen connections, boost brand equity, and transform buyers into advocates, driving long-term sales and cultural impact.

https://emotionalmarketo.com/emotional-marketing-brands-into-must-haves/

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Emotional Marketing: Turn Brands Into Must-Haves

Emotional marketing helps brands build deep connections, inspire loyalty, and become must-haves. Discover strategies to engage customers and drive growth.

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Souriez, vous êtes filmés : ce que l’« emotion AI » voit vraiment sur nos visages

Aujourd’hui, on peut lire vos émotions sur votre visage et adapter un flux vidéo en temps réel en fonction de votre réaction. Vraiment ? Quelles sont les limites de l’« emotion AI », et ses utilisations autorisées ?

The Conversation
Can emotional stability be engineered? Discover the Serenity Protocol, where AI uses biosignals to regulate stress and build calm through ethical feedback loops https://hackernoon.com/the-serenity-protocol-can-emotional-stability-be-engineered #emotionai
The Serenity Protocol: Can Emotional Stability Be Engineered? | HackerNoon

Can emotional stability be engineered? Discover the Serenity Protocol, where AI uses biosignals to regulate stress and build calm through ethical feedback loops

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🚀 EVI 3: Spricht wie ein Mensch – Fühlt wie Du! Entdecke die neue emotionale Sprach-KI von Hume AI!

• Reagiert auf Deine Emotionen
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EU AI Act, approved today despite opposition from states, bans emotion-recognition systems in edu institutions, and destroys startups and companies, including mine.

It’s a massive fail on part of European educators and technologists, that affective learning agents are lumped with AIs scraping CCTV to build facial recog databases.

It destroys so much value, and denies benefits particularly to learners with special needs.

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#EmotionAI
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#AIinEducation
#AlwaysEuropean

From emotion AI to space, here’s what to expect from tech in 2024

Emotion AI could take the crown from generative AI and space tech could save humanity. Euronews Next looks at what we can expect from technology in 2024.

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#EmotionAI is not a new concept or practice of #technology. It has been around for years, but recently has gained momentum and attention as more companies explore how it can be applied to specific #usecases. #VentureBeat talks about three ways that #customerfacing organizations can use #voicebased emotion #AI in the #enterprise to elevate #customerexperience initiatives

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3 ways emotion AI elevates the customer experience

Emotion AI can boost employees' emotional intelligence and provide real-time support to create better customer experiences.

VentureBeat