Popular WildEarth Broadcasts to Deliver Live Multi-View Exclusively on Ustream
24/7 Wildlife cameras allow users the choice of up to seven simultaneous live video streams
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ustream, the leader in live online video, and wildlife broadcaster, WildEarth, announced the launch of a new interactive video channel that will engage viewers with a compelling array of professionally produced live wildlife streams. Using technology that adds immersion to nature from virtually anywhere, a new Multi-View Experience will provide unprecedented views of the spontaneous and exotic wilderness only rarely witnessed in-person. The various streams capture a diverse selection of animals including elephants, lions, giraffes, and more through global locations such as Africa and the United States. Available exclusively on Ustream, WildEarth will go live with seven new channels of around-the-clock wildlife broadcasts starting on July 1, 2011.
Ustream is introducing its Multi-View screen functionality on the WildEarth hub at Ustream.TV/PetesPond, giving viewers full control to customize their own experience alongside an active social stream and chat room. Available whenever connected to Ustream - on mobile devices, internet connected TVs, Google TV and Boxee - all 7 of the WildEarth channels will feature this immersive Multi-View capability from the Pete's Pond Channel.
Live from Africa
In the heart of Botswana, viewers will encounter exotic wildlife at Pete's Pond, where a camera overlooking this watering hole provides a rare glimpse into life on the African savannah, 24 hours a day.
Live from the Djuma Game Reserve in South Africa, the Djuma Water Hole features an unobtrusive camera that is virtually controlled by an international team of volunteer wildlife enthusiasts called "zoomies". For the virtual traveler, Ustream.TV/wildearthsafari is a twice-daily, expert-presenter led, live safari that travels the bush and open plains of the Djuma Game Reserve.
"As we've seen with the now-famous Ustream Decorah Eagles," says Ruby Tugade, Manager of Content & Distribution at Ustream, "interactive broadcasting is incredibly powerful in building, educating, and inspiring a community of millions. Now, with the addition of simultaneous live cameras via Ustream's Multi-View technology, communities may share a panoramic view of the world together."
The American Wilderness
Operation Migration will entertain viewers at Ustream.TV/migratingcranes, where endangered whooping crane chicks will be taught to accept and follow a specially modified ultra-light aircraft that will teach them a migratory route from the White River Marsh State Wildlife Area in Wisconsin to Florida.
Additionally, WildEarth and PixController have teamed up to broadcast live Multi-Views, using PixController cameras positioned near an automatic feeder that operates 24/7 all year round, where an array of wildlife is attracted.
"We're hoping our WildEarth broadcasts become more than just a center of attention for wildlife buffs," says Graham Wallington, CEO of WildEarth. "By not only bringing people to these Multi-View Ustream camera options, we are offering them a much broader and more visceral experience, and we're putting a degree of virtual tourism on-line with an interactive learning environment that will ultimately help conserve these amazing animals and their environments."
The WildEarth hub of channels available with the Multi-View Experience can be found at Ustream via these links:
www.ustream.tv/wildearthsafari
www.ustream.tv/migratingcranes
Contact:
Dave Racine
414-534-6948
[email protected]
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