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Houseparty expands beyond video chat with co-watching of live events – TechCrunch

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Houseparty, the video chat app that’s seen a surge of growth during quarantine, is preparing to expand its service in a new direction: co-watching live video with friends.
pic.twitter.com/ierjkepvxJ — Houseparty (@houseparty) May 8, 2020The company doesn’t see this weekend’s virtual celeb party as a one-off event, however.
Instead, Houseparty sees this as the first of many live co-watching experiences still to come.
This content will be additive to the Houseparty video chat experience for our users,” she said.
Quarantine may have rushed this co-watching video technology into development and adoption.

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