HTC today announced at CES 2015 that it is bringing live YouTube streaming to its unique RE Camera. The company is enabling this functionality by pushing an update to the companion RE camera app for Android.
The feature will be simple-to-use and only requires users to sign in to their YouTube channel in the app and then activate live streaming. Once the streaming is verified, any footage that the RE camera shoots will be streamed directly to YouTube. You can invite people to view your broadcasts through SMS or social network channels and even make the broadcast public.
The updated RE companion app for Android is scheduled to hit the Google Play Store tomorrow (i.e. January 9). An update for the iOS version of the app is slated to arrive in sometime later in Q1, 2015.
The uniquely shaped $199 RE Camera from HTC sports a 16MP camera with an ultra wide angle (146-degree) lens. The “remarkable little camera” can also shoot 1080p videos at 30FPS or slow motion videos in 720p resolution.
