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How To Set Up Wireless PC Streaming On Your Oculus Quest 2
Oculus has officially turned on its Air Link PC streaming feature for the popular Oculus Quest 2 headset, so now you can wirelessly play to your heart’s content. The feature was added as part of the Oculus V28 software update, but was initially disabled. However, the company decided to turn it on a few days…
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Twitch Wouldn’t Do It, So Minority Streamers Built Their Own Discoverability Platform
Twitch Safety Advisor Council member and trans woman Steph “FerociouslySteph” Loehr has created a third-party site allowing marginalised Twitch streamers to build communities around their identity. While this is a huge win for diversity and inclusivity in streaming, it serves as a stark reminder of Twitch’s repeated failings when it comes to protecting its users.…
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Livestream Of Boulder Mass Shooting Raises Questions About What YouTube And Twitch Should Allow
Yesterday, a shooter opened fire at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado and killed 10 people. Not long after the attack, a streamer, Dean Schiller, arrived on the scene and broadcast to an audience that topped out at nearly 30,000 concurrent viewers. The resulting video has been viewed over 650,000 times. Despite the visible…
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Twitch’s First Transparency Report Is A Start, But Streamers Want More
Today, Twitch released its first-ever transparency report, a lengthy, stat-based look at the platform’s safety initiatives over the past year. It contains some interesting, albeit granular, information about Twitch’s efforts to cut down on hateful conduct, sexual harassment, and even terrorist propaganda. But it also fails to clear the haze from the question that has…