Twitter's live 360-degree videos arrive on Apple TVMay 25, 2017 - 14:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Twitter launched its very first streaming app on Apple TV last year with the promise of Thursday Night Football and live sports. Now it's expanding its television repertoire with even more live content: 360-degree videos. The social media company just announced that it's adding a Periscope Global Map to its Apple TV app, from which you can then select all kinds of live 360 videos from around the world. After you select a video from the Periscope Global Map, you can then navigate the 360-degree video using the Siri remote, Engadget said. According to Twitter, 77 million hours of live user-generated video was broadcasted on Periscope in the first quarter of 2017, so it seems you won't be lacking for content. Also, seeing as Twitter also has live TV apps on Xbox and Amazon TV boxes, it won't be surprising if live 360 videos appear on those platforms some time soon as well. This also makes Twitter the very first Apple TV app to support live 360 video, effectively beating YouTube and Facebook to the punch. Yet, YouTube isn't far behind, as it did announce last week at Google I/O that it was bringing its 360-degree videos to TVs soon. It's not coming to the Apple TV as far as we know, but Google did announce that it'll be available for Android TV, Playstation 4, Xbox One as well as 4K TVs from LG and Samsung. It's not clear yet if Facebook will do the same with its own live videos, but seeing as both Twitter and YouTube already have, it would make sense for it to do it as well. Photo: Getty Images Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |