Periscope continues to advance, this time with the support of the 360-degree video. The implementation is classic, but Twitter has decided to move on to not of the wolves, by allowing only a few partners in a first time.
It will therefore not have taken so long to Periscope to integrate the 360-degree video. The feature is available now, but only for a few selected partners. Why ? Because Twitter shows that she is not necessarily ready to tackle directly the general public. In clear, the work is not finished.
finger or the mouse
the use of The service is fairly standard. On a smartphone, the user can touch the screen with your finger to tilt the view in all directions. Since a computer, it uses the mouse to perform the same manipulations. The quality of the image will depend on advantage of the connection, the camera used filming in all directions.
there is also no need to wait that a source emits in 360 degrees to test the functionality. First test the public has been done and can be viewed from this page. In fact, so few people can yet spread, everyone can at least watch them. Note that a red badge is placed in the lower left to indicate what type of stream it is. After, as long as you don’t touch the screen, we can’t necessarily guess that we can look in other directions.
In the meantime the generalization
The question is now when Twitter is planning to open the flow at 360 degrees to all of its users, assuming of course that they have the right equipment. For the moment, the publisher did not say a word. There is no doubt that generalization is planned, but it will still take a few months to finalize everything that needs to be.
as far as Twitter is clearly not the only one to invest in this theme. The videos, 360-degree and virtual reality are two fields of exploration for the company, who are still looking for the way to make the best. Facebook tests well currently flows to 360 degrees via Facebook Live, also there for the live broadcast. The company of Mark Zuckerberg does, however, offer the functionality that some partners in a few months. Twitter has, therefore, a small length of advance for the instance.
Note that the compatibility with the videos at 360 degrees in the Periscope does not require any new versions of the applications for Android and iOS.
Vincent Hermann
Writer/journalist specializing in the software and in particular operating systems. Never travels without his sword.
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