I’ve been getting better at seeing which feeds are worth watching (look for the amount of people in them and well written descriptions) and have been finding better content. Here are a few highlights from my investigation.
Periscope Screenshots
Here were firemen rescuing a human from a car that went head on into another.
Here was live footage from a bball game played in “the cage” which is in New York. This game was intense. Full court press, refs calling fouls every play, and the crowd screaming profanities non-stop.
This kid was going to get hit with a stick if the Periscope group got to 60. I left before it did because he was hiding under a pillow which sort of ruined the challenge.
This was the sunset in Brooklyn, NY.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a Hispanic house but this is kind of how I pictured it. Fat kid running around with no clothes. Big screen TV from 1990 that must weight 2,000 pounds. Organized but tons of trinkets.
This was an actual play being shown. I didn’t stay long.
This was a lightning storm in Arizona. I couldn’t capture the actual lightning with a screenshot but it was still pretty cool.
I see the allure. Everyone wants to be there when something happens live so they can tell everyone they saw it live (i.e. a murder) but it seems incredibly unproductive. With TV you’re probably learning something or watching a live publicized event. With video games you’re problem solving and/or working on hand-eye coordination. This just seems like such a waste of time.
Gourlay wants to know if you have stock in Periscope.
It’s hit or miss and after a while you definitely feel like you’ve seen enough. At this point in its life cycle it’s raw. Once you can start filtering the feeds by country, amount of people watching, and category, it’ll be unbelievable.
Take the news for instance, they won’t show you the fire crew rescuing half a person’s body from a car crash. Not that I want to see that but the idea is that this is REAL life.
You learn more from this than TV. Did you know that they serve PBR’s in paper bags for 1 dollar in Texas? Have you seen ever seen the French Riviera from a ferris wheel 200 feet above ground? It’s more educational than you think and it’s not what someone wants you to know ie TV.
Tell Gourlay to crawl back into the hole he hides in.