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(Pocket-lint) - TikTok is seemingly investigating a caller desktop game streaming bundle that volition let it to straight vie with Amazon-owned Twitch.
Called TikTok Live Studio, it lets users broadcast unrecorded footage from games and different desktop applications. It is reportedly being tested with a prime fig of users crossed immoderate Western markets, but its webpage connected TikTok’s tract has been taken down and present appears to beryllium defunct.
If TikTok Live Studio launches, it volition not lone rival Twitch but besides different crippled streaming services specified arsenic YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming.
Zach Bussey, who covers the crippled streaming space, precocious shared screenshots of TikTok Live Studio connected Twitter. The app supposedly supports streaming successful some scenery and portrait, according to Bussey, and it tin propulsion root footage from games, programs, mobile devices, and cameras.
It's ace basal successful its existent state.
Has some Landscape and Portrait Scenes.
Sources see Game Capture, Mobile Capture, Video Capture, Program Capture, and immoderate text/images. No browser sources, oregon alerts.
Emojis are constricted to the banal ones. pic.twitter.com/oOHwUbSdUF
TikTok Live Studio isn’t definite to rotation out, the institution reportedly told TechCrunch. It's besides not wide if TikTok mightiness grow its trial of Live Studio to much users. It's a chaotic displacement for the company, which, until now, has been chiefly focused connected mobile video editing and sharing and music.
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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 16 December 2021.
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