YouTube trials play video in multiple angles

YouTube today introduced a very interesting little experiment: Users can switch camera angles during video playback. This multi-angle video is only experimental, and so far YouTube has only one video showing this feature.

If you are interested, please go to Maddie Berry’s YouTube channel. Maddie Bene is an independent singer known for cover music on YouTube. The YouTube team videotaped her performance on YouTube Music Night and produced a multi-angle video.

YouTube told reporters that the process of making these videos is very automated for users, but the technology developed by YouTube cannot be publicized yet.

YouTube is not the first video site to make this attempt. In the past few years, there have been a number of start-up companies that are only focused on developing similar functions. They developed Switchcam software, backed by Mark Cuban and 500 startups, and Streamweaver software, which leverages the power of everyone to shoot multi-angle video. The software ended in failure and Switchcam no longer existed. If a video site can succeed, it should be YouTube, just because YouTube users are very large.

A YouTube spokesperson stated that this trial is one of YouTube’s efforts to “continuously create an immersive and interactive video experience”. Because this is still in the experimental phase, YouTube only allows a select number of users to test this feature. If you want to experience, you need to register first.