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YouTube is adding support for live streaming while using a 360-degree video camera, as well as "immersive audio" features:
For a little over a year now, YouTube creators have had the ability to share 360-degree video content, but those videos didn't offer proper immersive audio formats, and you couldn't do a live stream with a 360-degree camera. As of today, YouTube is offering both of those features, although you can't use both features at the same time.
The company plans to broadcast its first large scale event using this feature this coming weekend at the Coachella music festival. You will be able to watch select artists' performances live during the festival in spherical video.
[...] The spatial audio feature is currently limited to on-demand content. Live-streamed content does not support spatial audio cues. YouTube said that the addition of spatial audio to immersive video content enhances the experience with "depth, distance and intensity all playing a role." The company put together a small playlist of sample videos that have spatial audio enabled, but you'll need an Android device to take advantage of the technology.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:22AM
Err... umm... circular/cylindrical or spherical... which one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:25AM
Assume a non-spherical cat suffocating in a vacuum.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:45AM
But is it a quantum vacuum? And if so, does the cat really suffocate if nobody looks?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:35AM
Oh, great. (quoth Sir Robin, of the Round Table at Camelot, on seeing the Bridge of Death.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @09:45AM
all you need is one anal cam strapped to your boyfriend so you can watch yourself get fucked up the ass
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:11AM
which camera do you recommend?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday April 19 2016, @11:20AM
Facebook.com [soylentnews.org] has built a rather painful one.
(Score: 1) by aiwarrior on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:20AM
The problem is which camera? There are very few cameras that cam livestream 360 video much less compact. And no the Ricoh360 does not work .
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 19 2016, @10:59AM
I very quickly got into making panoramas that I would display as a regular image, just a low, wide strip. I only have one online, of Burning Man [warplife.com].
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]