facebook starts rolling out live Video map on laptop - Mashable

facebook is getting in reality taken with are living. After rolling out the video streaming function globally in February, the company made a few large adjustments to its apps to make the feature greater trendy, including a limited rollout of an overhauled, video-headquartered Android app.

Now, fb's laptop version received an enchanting new addition, referred to as reside Video. 

The characteristic, which showed up on precise of the Apps checklist in my fb sidebar late on Wednesday, means that you can browse live streaming video clips on a world map. 

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The map, which is additionally attainable at www.facebook.com/livemap/, is comparatively fundamental, with blue dots representing reside movies — the larger the dot, the greater viewers the video has. which you can zoom in or out, with thumbnail-sized movies starting as quickly as you flow your mouse over a blue dot; click on one, and it'll extend into a a lot greater edition. The sidebar on the left offers a variety of are living video clips, although or not it's doubtful on what standards they're chosen. 

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We're no longer bound even if the map shows all the are living movies that are presently streaming world wide (it looks not going, there are far too few), but it does offer some perception into where the provider is time-honored. surely, this also depends upon the time zone.

as an example, I see the greatest awareness of blue dots in Thailand and Vietnam, indicating that americans there are loopy about video streaming. 

The reside Video map currently seems to be obtainable simplest on the desktop edition of fb; clicking on www.fb.com/livemap/ to your mobile will get you a "web page no longer discovered" error. 

The are living Video map, whereas nifty, is removed from the are living tab that these days intermittently regarded for some Android users. appearing useless core in the app's main navigation bar, and turning the entire interface black as you scroll down through the video clips, it become truly a video takeover of the app. The are living Video map is currently only a tiny icon on your sidebar, however a far better video-linked overhaul of fb seems inevitable.

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