YouTube reportedly wants to start live streaming 360-degree video
- 8 years ago
YouTube has been meeting with camera manufacturers, BuzzFeed News reports , with the intention of developing a way to live stream 360-degree videos.
YouTube itself declined to comment on the report, and no timeline has reportedly been set for launch, but the company could be helping to set up specifications with camera manufacturers that would let people stream live 360-degree videos from 360-degree cameras as they currently do from regular cameras.
If it's capable of hammering out industry standards with manufacturers, YouTube could be capable of doing this processing on its end, or - as BuzzFeed News notes - it could simply be speaking with the manufacturers whose cameras are powerful enough to put video from multiple sources together on the fly.
YouTube itself declined to comment on the report, and no timeline has reportedly been set for launch, but the company could be helping to set up specifications with camera manufacturers that would let people stream live 360-degree videos from 360-degree cameras as they currently do from regular cameras.
If it's capable of hammering out industry standards with manufacturers, YouTube could be capable of doing this processing on its end, or - as BuzzFeed News notes - it could simply be speaking with the manufacturers whose cameras are powerful enough to put video from multiple sources together on the fly.