Discord will launch a feature called Go Live for its desktop application on August 15th.
It will allow anybody with a PC to stream video of their game in any voice channel to up to 10 people at a time.
Go Live is intended to give people the feeling of gaming in a living room with your friends, and it shows.
It works based on Discord’s game detection, the same feature that shows your friends what you’re playing when you’re playing it.
The feature will work in any server, although fully boosted servers will have options for higher-quality streams and so will anyone with Nitro.
There’s no limit, server-wide, to how many people can go live.
If Ninja’s jump from Twitch to Mixer taught us anything, it’s that game streaming is big business.
People like to watch other people play games and this is something that’s been true since long before streaming video on the internet.
In some ways, Discord is returning to the roots of all that by rolling out game streaming on its own platform.
Don’t mistake this new Discord feature as a Twitch or YouTube competitor, because put simply, it isn’t.
Discord’s game streaming feature – dubbed “Go Live” – isn’t about streaming to the masses and making money.
Instead, it’s about letting your friends watch you play games as you all chat about what’s happening, just like the good old days (kind of).
That new artist you just favorited; that new genre you just discovered or that new song you are saving for a new day, are all products of music discovery and algorithms.
The second is natural language processing (NLP models), which analyze text, and the third are audio models which take a look at the raw audio tracks themselves.
For music applications, the collaborative filtering is based on implicit feedback data, meaning the live stream of your music is counted.
This includes how many tracks are streamed and additional streaming data like whether a song is saved to a playlist or whether a user visits that particular artist’s page after listening to one of their songs.
Depending on your device and system, you can record and/or receive live stream footage of your home, business, or whatever you choose to protect.
But, some also want a Home Monitoring Camera so that they can see what’s going on inside their house when they’re not around.
Or, maybe some parents want to make sure their teenage children are properly doing their assigned chores and aren’t throwing elaborate parties (you know, like they used to).
That’s a pretty nasty charge.
The outside is important, as well.
It looks like a bouquet of flowers.
