Finally! Broadcast your surf, live, to Twitter followers via Periscope!
How adept at you at latching onto the newest trends? Do you tweet your thoughts to a captive audience? Is Snapchatting and Chat Roulette and WhatsApp everyday occurrences?
If so, you’ll also know Periscope, the app that, like Meerkat, is a “live video streaming platform.” Which means, plug in, and instead of tapping out messages for Twitter, you stream a live video feed form your phone. It’s isn’t much different to web chat or Google Hang Out except in one real important way – it’s mobile.
And, so, as reported on Gizmodo, this gives the GoPro Hero the chance to broadcast live, his, or yeah, her, surf.
Let’s examine.
“You connect your camera to your phone via the GoPro app, as usual. Then you fire up the Periscope app, hit the start broadcast button, and it recognises the connection to your camera. You’ll then see icons for either the phone or the GoPro, you tap the one you want, and you’re off to internet fame and glory. In fact, you can toggle back and forth between the GoPro and your phone camera during your live broadcast for multiple angles, which is pretty slick. Video will come through the GoPro at 720p30, and yes, you’ll be able to save your video locally to the camera’s micro SD card as you broadcast. At launch it will only be working with the Hero4 Black or Silver cameras and only on the iPhone 5s, 6, and 6+ running iOS 8.2 or higher.”
How’s it work for surf?
“I’d stick my phone in a waterproof case, jam it down the back of my wetsuit, and go surfing with my GoPro mounted to the nose of my board.”
Can you think of anything better than watching, live, Kelly Slater, or if he could be bothered with such trivials, John John, rushing hither and yon, choking lips, filling tubes?
A dazzling luxury? Yes.
Conversely, could there be anything more atrocious than watching, live, your pals, heads furrowed with wrinkles, arms stretched out, in deep squats on their boards, surfing like tortoises?
I think, no.
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All forms of social media and communication technology should be banned from all of the world’s beaches. Just sayin…
I heard on Surf SPlendor that Go Pro stocks had taken a massive nosedive recently. I can’t see how anything they do can not be replicated, nor how they can be valued so highly. The 3D thing was cool, but this sounds lame!
i have mate?
The crafty bastards will add their pre-session beach dump to their livestream. The deviant ones will find a way to make this platform produce pornography.
I don’t think there’s a more unflattering angle in the history of angles then a nose mounted GoPro pointing at your face from 20cm away. Fuck me, everyone looks like some sort of hunchback inbred with the worlds worst paddling style.
a retina implant! sweet cyborg jesus!
why did you drop in asshole!?
i didn’t!
fuck you, you did!
i didn’t see you!
yes you fucking did!
cunt!
asshole!
i got it all live-streamed, you’re so fucked!
oh shit! don’t put that on facebook!
it is sooooo going on facebook.
fuck!
fuck!
bastard!
prick!
you’ll be hearing from my lawyers.
i tell you what
grunting, panting, splashing …. pucker up sunshine! damn, won’t fit.