We published a blog a few weeks ago about citizen journalism, where we recognized  the idea that just about anyone can be a videographer, or at least wear a videographer’s hat for a day. Modern technology has given countless people access to the kinds of tools needed to capture relevant news footage as it’s happening. The rise of citizen journalism means that virtually anyone can report on virtually any event.

Periscope is taking that idea to a whole new level.  

“It may sound crazy, but we wanted to build the closest thing to teleportation,”  the company wrote in a post on its website. Periscope, which was acquired by Twitter in January, allows users to stream live video from their iPhone, and has amassed a whopping 10 million registered users. A TechCrunch article said that as of mid-August, all of the app’s users combined were streaming over 350,000 hours of video a day. All in all, that means that collective amount of video streamed on the app is equal to over 40 human lifetimes.

Periscope will eventually become more than just an iPhone app – (or at least that’s what people are saying.) It’s been rumored that the company is developing an app for the new Apple TV that will allow users to watch live Periscope footage on their TV screens. In another article, TechCrunch reported that Apple TV will function like the Periscope website, which allows users to watch live footage but, of course, limits them when it comes to uploading their own streams.

So, what are people watching on Periscope? Well, there’s TIME’s live footage from the migrant crisis on the Hungarian border, as well as a few popular live streams Apple’s big event, including a firsthand look at the new iPad Pro and a post-event chat with Verge reporter Casey Newton. You can check out these newsworthy “recent streams” on the app right now, but Periscope makes it really easy to access other streams, too. It’s not all about following the big news channels. Periscope also functions sort of like a hybrid mix of Snapchat and Skype because it allows users to watch live streams from their contacts, but its structure is that of a social network.

We love everything about Periscope, because it really complements what we’re doing for video here at Wispeo. We believe that life should be captured from every angle and that those stories should be shared and connected in the most convenient and advanced ways available. If you want to send large video files, you can use Wispeo to do it in the highest possible quality.

And, just like Periscope, Wispeo will soon be available on iPhone and Android devices. Sign up so you can be the first to know when the apps are available!

UPDATE: Wispeo is now mobile! Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the App Store or from Google Play.

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The first awesome video-related feature Apple announced was that GoPro is coming to the Apple Watch. You can now use your watch as your viewfinder for the camera – it looks like it will be a pretty slick app and easy way to manage your shots.

The iPad is new and improved (“the biggest news in iPad since the iPad” was a bit much): iPad Pro – something that looks like Apple is trying to take a direct hit at Microsoft’s Surface Pro. The iPad Pro is larger with a 5k display, 8-megapixel camera, and a far more powerful processor. It also has a 4-speaker sound system. This will allow for an awesome video playback and Adobe showed off how the faster processor makes it easier to edit and manage photos on the iPad. Loved CNET’s take on the “Apple Pencil”:

Meet Apple Pencil. @sharatibken jokes “hell must have frozen over” (live blog) http://t.co/CS6bHcXTJi #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/i7azikfo5C

— CNET (@CNET) September 9, 2015

We’ve already talked about how iPhone is the most popular camera in the world, and now Apple has announced that iPhone 6 is the most popular phone in the world with its year-over-year growth. Apple says they’ve changed everything about the phone (except how it looks), but we’re most excited about the camera improvements. Schiller announced that the new iPhone 6s and 6s+ have a 12 megapixel rear camera, “50% more pixels than before”, 50% more focus pixels so autofocus is faster, and new technology to get more accurate color. This will be awesome, especially combined with the 4K video recording and the 5-megapixel front-facing camera – taking the selfie game to a whole new level of clearness.

The iPhone 6s and 6s+ will be able to shoot 4k video, meaning that they have 8 million pixels in every frame. It will be hard to appreciate the 4k video on the smaller iPhone screen, but when you wisp these ginormous videos to yourself so you can view them on a desktop or TV screen, they’ll be amazing! Schiller also announced that you can edit the 4k videos in iMovie right on the iPhone 6s.

One more photo feature: Schiller talked about a new feature called Live Photos. It takes photos before and after when you snap your image to “extend the capture moment”. You can see your Live Photos on the Apple Watch and do some cool things there. The iPhone 6s commercial showed that if you tap and hold an image, the Live Photos can kind of play together and make the photos move?

One feature we’re kind of excited about that wasn’t discussed at the event, but rumored beforehand and kind of shown off in demos is that Apple is releasing Motion backgrounds on the iPhones. They did talk about video screensavers on the Apple TV (which is nice because we were getting REALLY tired of seeing the same 10 Getty Images as the screensavers). The AppleTV backgrounds were shot exclusively for Apple and will automatically change from day to night shots depending on what time you’re watching TV. The rumors are that the iPhone Motion backgrounds can incorporate timelapses, videos, or cinemagraphs. We think it will look really awesome, fingers crossed that we’ll hear more about it when people start demoing the phones.

What are you most excited about with Apple’s event today? Do you think they have awesome new camera features that will blow photographers and videographers away? Or are they just catching up with the rest of the market? Tell us what you think below!

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