Snap is slowly rolling out new feature Crowd Surf, which uses machine learning to cut together several perspectives of a single event, like a concert for example, using footage from smartphones. It made its debut during a Lorde concert at the San Francisco music festival Outside Lands over the weekend, and though the footage is a bit shaky, the potential is obvious: The feature completed its first successful test run at a Lorde show, assembling footage from all over the venue into a single coherent video. The technology uses a spectograph, or sound print, to match footage from phones to the music itself. “People are really excited about this technology,” said Snap’s head of product management, Chris Cox.
Snap is slowly rolling out new feature Crowd Surf, which uses machine learning to cut together several perspectives of a single event, like a concert for example, using footage from smartphones. The feature completed its first successful test run at a Lorde show, assembling footage from all over the venue into a single coherent video. The technology uses a spectograph, or sound print, to match footage from phones to the music itself. “People are really excited about this technology,” said Snap’s head of product management, Chris Cox.