Facebook recently announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live during the VidCon, an annual online video conference in Anaheim, California, integrating MSQRD filters and face-swaps including a two-person remote broadcast and a feature to allow users to pre-schedule streams.
The live-streaming platform built into Facebook will have the ability to stream a broadcast between two people who are from two different locations by inviting a friend to join the conversation and "drop in" a broadcast.
It would be like a remote interview wherein different people can remotely participate in the Live videos, Mark Zuckerberg teased during his Live Q&A last week. Users can also do live duets with others using the feature and could expand their creativity. Said feature will be first live to Verified Pages this summer and will soon be available to all users, Tech Crunch reported.
Aside from that, Facebook will also let others stay in a "waiting room" while waiting for a broadcast to start, thus pre-scheduling when the stream will go live. Users may send others are notification before the stream begins and they can wait for it to go live.
With this, broadcasters can gather their viewers first before starting the live-stream. This way, users can wait to start their broadcast when many people have already tuned-in. Although, there is also a chance that earlier viewers might leave and might get tired while waiting.
But the highlight of the update is the ability to use the Belarusian startup Masquerade app, which Facebook acquired last March to "continue enhancing the Facebook video experience." The video filter app will make Facebook Live similar to Snapchat. This will let the users use different masks and effects while the broadcast is live.
Using MSQRD will make a video more interesting and will allow users to make a funny content using face swaps that included famous faces like Leonardo DiCaprio, Harry Potter, and other popular emojis. The goal of the new feature is to make videos more dynamic and appealing.
Since the lenses of Snapchat became popular, Facebook made sure that they can also offer a similar feature in their built-in video streaming platform using the technology of MSQRD, The Verge reported.