Snap debuts AI-powered Crowd Surf at Outside Lands
Crowd Surf, new to Snapchat, uses machine learning to stitch together audience videos to create an interactive, multiple-angle account of live shows
News By | 15 August 2017
Snapchat developer Snap Inc. used last weekend’s Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, as the debut for a new feature for the app: Crowd Surf, which stitches together audience ‘snaps’ to create a multi-angle video account of a concert or live event.
Snap deployed Crowd Surf during Lorde’s performance on Sunday 13 August, synchronising the audio using artificial intelligence from multiple fans filming the New Zealand singer to create an interactive Snapchat ‘story’ in which viewers…