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Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video)
This video is about Dr. Saeed Darvish-Kazem and Dr. Michael Pazaratz, two MDs from Canada, who came up with a free iOS app called WeMesh that lets you share video content with iOS-owning friends in real time. You see the video and so does your friend. more or less simultaneously. Cat videos and 90s music are two categories the doctors say are especially popular on WeMesh, which only works with YouTube at the moment, a shortcoming they hope to change in the near future. NOTE: If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.
I can't think of all that many times when this would be useful socially. Such a thing could be useful in a classroom setting if for some reason the instructor doesn't have a projector and wants the students to be done with a video lesson at the same time, but for that to work best some form of central control (to force the video to load and to force the video to the foreground) would be necessary, and would still need students to use their headphones and to pay attention.
So, what is this for?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
can I read bennett's frequent contributions in sync too?
Taco, what the hell is this video autoplay shit? If I want to watch the video I am capable of clicking on the "play" button.
kudos for getting medicine doctor this young.
Isn't this just live streaming? But with a third party host? How are these people able to market this as something novel? This is the 21st century -- I was promised robots and flying cars, not this garbage!
Thanks for the warning, you will see the drastic reduction in hits for such links from Chrome. You will create a policy of not linking to any site that has auto play video. Also why do you include it directly in read? Can't you just put up a link and say click to play?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
If you're on the Slashdot main page and click the 'Read' link below this paragraph, the video will autoplay.
This is exactly why I use Flashblock.
I wish my Window/Linux/Android stuff could stream video. That Apple technology is almost like alien tech. How to they do it??
AUTOPLAY AGAIN?!?!!?!
Do you seriously think I'm going to think positively of the article or video with this utter shit?
Well, not really, but I'd sure like it if it were true.
I think all of us readers at slashdot want to say congratulations to these innovators for this, we are sorry that live streaming and multicast failed, if only we had used the words "mesh" and "cloud based" we could of made them a success
AUTOPLAY? REALLY!?
Come on now, that is a huge pain in the ass! I thought we all agreed to that! You couldn't have been bothered to remove it? For that matter, the article itself has a severe spelling and grammar flaw. That reeks of laziness! REEKS , I tell you. How completely and utterly disappointing.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
We are doctor we know whats best for you
I was looking hard for a Dice link, but couldn't find it. What's up with that? There's got to be a Dice angle, right?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I won't be quick to dismiss this. One of the downsides of watching internet videos is that you lose out on some of the shared viewing experience. Meanwhile the shared communication experience (voice, Twitter, whatever) is nearing full strength. It would make sense to take advantage of that. There's value in seeing things at once, as a group.
Another example is with online-only shows like House of Cards. It's an excellent show and binge watching is great. But I think Netflix may be missing out on a lot of word of mouth that might come with a shared viewing experience. It might have benefited them if, for example, they had a countdown for each individual episode to become available (with unlimited streaming after), perhaps on a more traditional broadcast schedule. It might improve water cooler discussions.
I'm guessing maybe not even a short distance relationship.
I dated a woman in another city and can remember spending hours on the phone with her and occasionally even watching a TV program with her all while on the phone (and this was 25+ years ago when long distance actually cost money).
For what it's worth, it might be kind of fun to have this kind of real-time social component with Netflix streamed movies, either with people you knew or with other people who liked the same shows or movies.
the lips to the audio. Unless I'm watching a DVD my lipsync is off maybe 50% of the time. Sometimes by a lot. I don't know if it's the source, the cable, my router (I have Uverse, my TV comes through my router), my DVR, my TV, or some combination.
This is cool even in non-romantic relationships, considering how easy it is to make friends all over the globe thanks to the Internet.
I've been looking for a good solution that runs on PC for years, but haven't found one that just works. I've used a buggy VLC and media player plugin. They were trying too hard to keep things in sync down to the milisecond level and would only work on a LAN. Useless for streaming video, but netflix and youtube block certain videos based on the country you're in, so that has never been much of an option.
A delay of 2-3 seconds is really not a problem. Manually starting and stopping something or just using instant messenger to send each other timestamps worked fine, but was not as easy as it could've been.
So this is why medicine in Canada is such a freaking mess: they're are too busy thinking about and developing apps to help their patients!
ORANGE MOUND MOTHAFUCKA
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm willing to bet a significant percentage of the videos shared with this new app will include penises.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I watch movies and stuff with friends all the time. We usually get on skype in a group call and someone counts off and everyone does their best to hit play at the same time. This is way better. Wish it worked on PC or at least Android.
Sounds more like a "I know what you need better than you do" patented Roblimo move. I dunno... maybe he's a nice guy, but over the past 15 years, he's continued to be the single most annoying presence on Slashdot.
So they made a synctube. Good for them. Now why is this on slashdot?
Iâ(TM)m so amazed at a pair of MDs ability to multicast video. Wow.
It doesn't for me. Once again glad I killed Javascript in my browser. Although those idiots at Firefox made disappear the convenient checkbox for doing that.
At least (thanks, slashdot!) there's no patronizing box ("What's going on here? It seems you have an old creaky browser! Hey, you can just... yadda yadda").
Folks -- just disable Javascript in your browsers. It's really liberating.
I've been using Syncplay for quite a while, lets you use your own media player, works on the big three. Handles pausing, seeking etc. It's a joy to watch things with people in other countries, especially when used along side voice communication - especially if it's your sweetheart (sigh) So the same functionality on mobile platforms? pretty awesome! I expect such functionality will be part of social media sites in the near future.
I'm impressed with the level of sync these guys have been able to achieve with their app. Tried it with a few of my friends in the same room and it was spot on. I had seen something similar for Samsung a while back but that was just over local wifi. Connection doesn't seem to matter here. I hope they can add some more content sources especially for music but I could see my friends and I using this at a party.
Autoplay *bitch bitch bitch*.
Article topic *ignored*.
Like the design. Perfect for my girlfriend and I. Will there be an android version planned?
Wow.
Great job, you stole an idea. There is a site called instasync.com that does this kind of thing for years already. The original site was synchtube.com which went down though. instasync was the more or less official follow up.
Stop stealing ideas.
Wow.
Great job, you stole an idea. There is a site called instasync.com that does this kind of thing for years already. The original site was synchtube.com which went down though. instasync was the more or less official follow up.
Stop stealing ideas!!
Everyone: This is a stolen idea!
There is a site called instasync.com that does this kind of thing for years already. The original site was synchtube.com which went down though. instasync was the more or less official follow up.
Stop stealing ideas.