TwitchCon 2024 in San Diego, first impressions of a festival full of announcements and polemics

At the end of the week from September 20th to 22nd, I landed in the city of San Diego, California, USA TwitchConthe annual event organized by Twitch Interactive, is an important platform for the company Amazon, Inc., which celebrated it a few years ago, once in North America and elsewhere in Europe. This event is at the center of the entire streaming culture, video games, geek art and content creators, it is many surprises, announcements and spaces so that creators can meet like fanatics. Thank you for an invitation from part of the regional office of the platform, we have the opportunity to support this event and opening ceremony so that we can transmit the main announcements in advance.

TwitchCon 2024 key announcements:

During the opening ceremony, some announcements will be made Daniel ClancyCEO of Twitch and Donde Sobresalen:

The Glitch

An entire world integrated, customizable through brands distributed in Fortnite and promotions for streamers on the platform. Created by Look North World, the studio of Alexander Seropian, co-creator of Halo, it represents a new era in the form in which the brands in the video game space have been able to carry out a significant commercial activity.

Some of the early adopters from The Glitch, Domino's and Peloton are clear that early adopters will have their own in-game designs specifically designed to reflect their own identity. For example, players might meet a room of Domino's participating in a “pizza fiesta” and serve their food in-game.

Important changes in security and trust policy

Further announcements regarding the elimination of the strike system. It is a system that was implemented as a comfort moderation tool on the platform and can be replaced by a more comprehensive and flexible system.

Recently, the Twitch Security Advisory Council was formed in May 2020. They are industry experts, streamers and moderators who contact Twitch in new policies and updates, in product development and in the function of better security and moderation, as well as protecting the interests of marginalized groups. Now, it is that we deal with individuals who are employees of the platform or “embassadors” and who have stood out for the positive impact they have brought to the community.

Better security and moderation

The platform also points out that new technologies are being implemented Artificial intelligence To detect and prevent devices with the greatest effectiveness. Among its greatest advantages is also the capacity of chat blocking, which may only be possible before Sean is visited by the members of the community.

Increases the transparency of your policymakers

Now, Twitch has given streamers and viewers more clarity on the reasons for their bans when comparing the chat extracts that were moved to the center screen lock of the electronic correspondence portal and to the app portal. Ultimately, the number of clips was expanded, allowing streamers to violate the regulations of a live broadcast or video on demand.

Policy on the conduct of strikes

Now that the strikes start with “Baja Gravedad”, it's no longer going to the channels, but I have to apply the reglas for the violation of Graves. In addition, more details about the punishment will be agreed in the notification.

News on a technical level

Compatibility with HEVC (H.265)

Before the platform was used, this was new code that was previously created in beta. This allows streamers to send multiple versions of videos at different resolutions or bit rates directly from PCs with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards to improve video quality by 25% compared to H.264.

In addition, these GPUs also enable content creators to leverage the NVIDIA Broadcast application, 8x generation NVIDIA NVENC, and RTX technology-based optimizations for better productions.

Streaming in 1440p

Now viewers will be able to enjoy the broadcast in “2K” (1440p) starting next year in some select regions with expansion planes to other countries in 2025. It is important that the platform also transitions to broadcast in 4K.

Vertical and horizontal video transmission throughout the entire runtime

Search forward TikTok The platform will allow content creators to broadcast in real time in two formats, and the mobile application will be updated to improve navigation and clip creation.

Now that the community and content creators have received all these changes, we all need to contact moderation without Polémica being generated.

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