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YouTube introduces 360 live stream at Coachella

Video streams like you’ve never seen or heard

YouTube takes live streaming a step farther with its introduction of a 360-degree video platform for Coachella 2016.

Planned to be launched during Coachella’s second week, the new streaming platform is an expansion of an earlier incarnation of 360-degree videos already available to computer users.

Along with this upgrade, YouTube is testing reality with a new broadcasting format that utilizes “spatial audio”, which gathers sound from various physical sources in the performance to provide a heightened viewing experience.

So far, YouTube has announced that 360-degree live streaming and spatial audio will be used for Run the Jewels, The Kills and Matt and Kim.

*[Via: Pitchfork**]*

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