Fatboy Slim did a live show on Nico Nico Douga, and the use of real-time comments over the videos (one of the primary features of the video service) spurred new ways of interacting and made the show more fun for participants and Fatboy Slim.
Reindeer Races, and is a huge arduino powered installation that live streams real-world races from our office here in Sydney. When you connect with Facebook, you’ll be allocated a reindeer in the next available race, then battle it out with some button mashing keyboard action or use your phone as a controller for the game
Periscope viewers can report comments as spam or abuse which will cause the individual comment to disappear from their screen immediately, and will prevent them from seeing other messages from that same person during the broadcast. As a result of being flagged, Periscope will then randomly select a few other viewers to vote on whether or not they also agree the comment is spam or abuse or if it looks okay.
So which other features are coming to Hangouts? Chew and Singhal didn’t share
too many specifics, but said that they’re striving to make any Hangouts feature
available on every supported device. This includes allowing mobile phone users
to start a Hangout on Air, which will essentially bring mobile social live
streaming to Google+ and YouTube.
Xbox users will be served streams that come in 720i resolution, not to mention being able to check out the entire slew of 11 Sky Movies live channels. As for Kinect owners, you can even gesticulate and holler at your TV in order to navigate through the different options, which is somewhat reminiscent of the new generation of Samsung Smart TVs.
"Viewers will not only be able to click on clothes and accessories to browse color options in real-time, they'll also be able to change the music, download the show soundtrack from iTunes, snap screenshots to share instantly on Facebook (a feature that was developed with in-house Facebook engineers), cut and share video clips, and order looks and makeup appearing on the catwalk."