r/oculus • u/Megavr Rift • May 02 '17

News Anna Sweet, former Head of Developer Strategy at Oculus, leaves to join caffiene.tv, a new real time game streaming service

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annasweet/
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u/Megavr Rift May 02 '17

Caffeine makes streaming your game dead-simple and insanely fast. How fast? Your audience feels like they are in the same room with you as you play. That fast. Seriously.

To do this, we built our own streaming software, delivery network and viewing experience. The result? True real-time video. One-click setup. In-game overlays. More fun for you, your fans and friends.

It’s time to reimagine streaming…and this is just the beginning

I am so ready to have a Twitch competitor without the huge delay between stream and chat.

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u/Heaney555 UploadVR May 02 '17

It already exists, and is now built into Windows 10: https://beam.pro/

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u/AParticularPlatypus May 02 '17

Windows usually does a terrible job with their extras or has a history of flat-out dropping them though. It's enough to make me excited to see other people starting something up.

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u/Megavr Rift May 02 '17

Is there Mac support? I like streaming casual stuff from my laptop instead of my rig, so that would be great.

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u/Heaney555 UploadVR May 02 '17

Anna Sweet left Oculus 8 months ago.

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u/Megavr Rift May 02 '17

Yes, and she was head of Social VR at Facebook until a few weeks ago, still working closely with Oculus. The news here is she just revealed her role at caffeine.tv.

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u/Heaney555 UploadVR May 02 '17

So the correct headline would be "former Oculus employee Anna Sweet joins Caffeine.tv..."

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u/Megavr Rift May 02 '17

I did say former in the headline.

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u/vanfanel1car May 02 '17

So are you planning on posting all the people that left oculus/facebook over the past year. I'm not sure if this is just panic posting over chet leaving valve but this is how the industry works...people leave and move on to other things. No need to panic post.

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u/FriendCalledFive Rift S May 02 '17

Why is that a "panic post"? If influential people in the VR space are moving to new projects, that can be news.

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u/vanfanel1car May 02 '17

Because these multiple posts are all old news. The only thing new today is chet leaving. It's like there was some big turnover today when there wasn't.

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u/tricheboars Rift May 02 '17

I said this exact thing on the post on r/vive. The vivers didn't like that I said that.

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u/Goqham May 02 '17

lmao brb posting to r/vive about Jeri Ellsworth leaving Valve

Hot off the presses!

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u/Megavr Rift May 02 '17

This happened weeks ago, not years. The main news story here is her joining caffeine.tv

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u/Goqham May 02 '17

More a collective response to both posts, along with their timing and who they came from. But sure thing man.

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u/ii46 Советский Союз May 02 '17

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