Friday, 10 May 2013
Watch TV With Faraway Friends in This Virtual Living Room
Watch TV With Faraway Friends in This Virtual Living Room
Whether it's during the latest episode of Game of Thrones or a football game on TV, chances are you might be engaging with a second screen and tweeting, Facebook posting and otherwise communicating with friends about what you're watching.
Now a social TV startup wants to bring that shared experience back to a singlescreen.
SimulTV combines streaming video content, Facebook and Twitter integration and video chat all into one web browser-based interface that you can access anywhere.
It's sort of like a virtual living room, where you can watch video content "sitting" alongside your grandma in Chicago, your sister in Los Angeles and your cousin in Hong Kong.
That's because SimulTV allows you to watch an available streaming show or video on demand, and then invite other people on their devices to join your "viewing circle" (currently only four people total can be watching together).
Each person joins via webcam in a picture-in-picture or Google-Hangout-type environment where you can all video, audio and text chat live, while watching the same content.
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