{"id":1902,"date":"2016-11-30T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-has-cut-off-prismas-live-video-access.html"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:57:14","slug":"facebook-has-cut-off-prismas-live-video-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-has-cut-off-prismas-live-video-access.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook has cut off Prisma\u2019s Live Video access"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Style transfer startup Prisma<\/a> added support to its iOS app for\u00a0livestreaming its art filter effects in real-time via\u00a0Facebook Live\u00a0earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but almost immediately the startup\u2019s\u00a0access to the Live API was cut off by the social media platform giant.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a David vs Goliath tale that\u2019s oh<\/a>\u2013so<\/a>\u2013familiar<\/a> in tech.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s Facebook\u2019s API and they can do what they like about\u00a0who can access it but the explanation they gave looks a little wonky. Facebook told Prisma: \u201cYour app streams video from a mobile device camera, which can already be done through the Facebook app. The Live Video API is meant to let people publish live video content from other sources such as professional cameras, multi-camera setups, games or screencasts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet in an FAQ<\/a> on the Facebook Live site for developers Facebook\u00a0does not explicitly say streaming from smartphone cameras is prohibited \u2014 although it does flag up other types of camera, such as standalone cameras and drones, as examples of its preferred use-case for the API.<\/p>\n

The FAQ also says the API can be used to apply\u00a0special effects to video \u2014 which you could argue describes Prisma\u2019s style transfer feature.<\/p>\n

One rather salient detail in\u00a0this story is that Facebook is in the midst of rolling out its own style transfer filter feature \u2014 which it previewed in October<\/a>, the day before Prisma showed off its style transfer preview<\/a>\u00a0on a Facebook Live broadcast.<\/p>\n

So Facebook evidently does not want Prisma\u00a0cannibalizing its push into Prisma-style style transfer.<\/p>\n

The Russian startup popularized the current craze for style transfer, after launching their\u00a0app\u00a0<\/a>in\u00a0June \u2014 initially offering a series of art filters that could be applied to photos. This quickly went viral on Instagram as users shared arty-looking selfies created with Prisma. By October, the app\u00a0had racked up more than\u00a070 million downloads, and the team\u00a0added support for video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to fix the issue but Facebook has a strong policy, they only let broadcast to different cameras, drones. Our app is no drone or camera. So this means we cannot do it,\u201d says Prisma\u2019s\u00a0Aram Airapetyan, discussing what happened when Facebook cut off its access to the Live API earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Despite being blocked\u00a0on Facebook\u2019s platform, Airapetyan says Prisma still has \u201cbig plans for live\u201d.\u00a0\u201cThe fact that we can do it is great and we\u2019ll probably give users an opportunity to stream to different websites,\u201d he tells TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

While the future of\u00a0Prisma\u2019s live video support remains up in the air at this point, the team\u2019s current priority is working on a social-focused release, pegged for mid December.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe priority is the social feature coming soon. But after we launch it, we\u2019ll seriously consider giving our users an alternative for live,\u201d adds Airapetyan.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing Facebook had not responded to a request for comment on its reasons for booting Prisma out of its livestreaming walled garden.<\/p>\n

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