Twitter-owned livestream video app partners with GoPro

folarin okunola

February 4, 2016 4:36 PM

If you’re on Periscope and own a GoPro HERO4 camera, you can now broadcast your content live on Periscope for your followers and fans to watch in real-time

The Periscope app

Periscope is steadily becoming the leader of mobile, livestreamed video with over 10 million users.

The Twitter-owned platforms’ latest partnership with GoPro looks to go beyond the classic “Scopes” and introduce high-quality, real-time storytelling to people who use Twitter and Periscope regularly.

If you’re on Periscope and own a GoPro HERO4 camera, you can now broadcast your content live on Periscope for your followers and fans to watch in real-time, simply by toggling between broadcasting from your iPhone’s camera to the GoPro via the touch of a button.

In GoPro’s announcement, they say the feature is “like a production switch-board, where you can use your Periscope interface to flip between the two different camera angles, so even if your broadcast is lacking that heart-pounding action only GoPro can capture, you can still set up a two-camera shot for more dynamic story telling in real time.”

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The broadcast function is currently only available on iOS, but users will be able to view GoPro broadcasts from any platform.

As a Twitter users, you can also watch live Periscope content (often called “scopes”) within Twitter’s app, so you don’t need to be active on the native Periscope app to enjoy livestreamed video.

From Periscope’s perspective, integrating GoPro allows them to expand beyond the one-person-selfie perspective and day-in-the-life feeds that is generally associated with the app.

For GoPro, its technology and unique form of high-quality, video storytelling will be seen by millions of people on Twitter every day.

Sounds like a great match.

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