Canon launches "Live Switcher Mobile" iOS app for one-person multi-angle livestreaming with single touch camera switching

[Canon Rumors]

With the increase in video content on social media, there has been a growing demand for livestreaming video content, such as cooking, gaming, and product reviews in which content creators can simultaneously communicate with the viewers.

Read the full Press Release

 

[mmmm]

Looks cool and easy to use but expensive for occasional use if you don’t want a watermark or ‘adverts on streamed videos’, whatever that may mean.

 

[David - Sydney]

Who says that Canon can't do useful SW!
Looks cheap and simple to use vs a hardware setup. Portable as well.
I think that most users will switch to paid once they use it a bit. Better than paying for a bunch of hardware up front and getting it all to work. Even if they do eventually go the hardware route, they can use this as a stepping stone for content creation on a budget.

 

[neuroanatomist]

…simple to use…

From the makers of DPP. Mmmmmmkay.

 

[mmmm]

From the makers of DPP. Mmmmmmkay.

A surprising as it is, yes it's true. Download it and have a look. It's utterly simple considering the normally complex nature of the task it's performing.

 

[josephandrews222]

This seems like a truly unique, future-facing product. Is it?

I have not read the press release nor have I downloaded the app itself, but find it interesting that (apparently), as currently constructed, this Canon-designed app works only with iOS devices. Kudos to Canon for thinking outside of the box.

When external camera capabilities are added to the app, will those capabilities be limited to Canon-branded cameras?

And finally, it seems to me that in order to make this work well with Canon's own bodies, the wireless abilities of those bodies need to made as accessible as possible and more dependable and robust, as dependable as most any iOS device.

And my goodness, the use of dummy batteries and AC power supplies will be the rule for Canon cameras used in this way--my own wish list for Canon's newest bodies includes improved battery life.

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EDIT: tablet-based post clean up and another thought.

As for subscription fees?

If this software is truly unique and open to all cameras...then Canon may have a winner...a winner that, frankly, has little to do with much (most?) of what interests those who post on this very forum. And by winner I mean financial winner--the monthly cost might just work for users, and for Canon.

Let the marketplace decide.

 

[neuroanatomist]

A surprising as it is, yes it's true. Download it and have a look. It's utterly simple considering the normally complex nature of the task it's performing.

Interesting. I have zero need for such an app. I wonder if Canon's software team actually developed it, or they outsourced it. Cynically, if the app has a good UI then I suspect the latter.