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hi I'm Joan Salzmann CNET's digital media reporter do you want a broadcast straight from your face why Stream has developed the first Google glass app to do just that live stream is a company that helps anyone broadcast live video on the internet about almost anything that includes big companies live-streaming big events like Twitter's IPO - citizen journalism - of course puppy and Kitty cams live stream is releasing the first live streaming app for Google glass the head-mounted voice-activated computer from Google we talked to Phil Worthington a co-founder of livestream and its chief product officer about the app it's the first live streaming app for Google glass so anybody can now get their glass install the live stream app and go live through the live stream platform to any device - TVs and iPads iPhones websites so it's really just enabling anyone with a pair of glass to go like worthington told us live streams mission is to democratize live screaming by releasing apps for iPhone Android and other platforms this is the new kid on the block and it's definitely the most portable wearable camera that we've come across so it's perfect what we do ok glass livestream I get a thing that says go live and I tap it so what I'm seeing is starting broadcast and it's starting to take a roll so what's happening now is it's taking the video from the glass and it's going up to our servers through a delivery network called echo mine I said there's a little delay in getting to the website and the reason for that is just so that we can have scalability so that you know hundreds of thousands of people can watch you if your audience is that big you know which I'm sure it is and then a few seconds later it appears on the website the possibilities are almost unlimited from sports events to concerts to your day-to-day life one good example is citizen journalism we actually had a guy from vehicle temple who was using glass in the turkey protests which happened not too long ago so it's a great example of you know he would otherwise have had a an iphone strapped to his chest as what he used to do you know and you can still use iPhone I guess technically they're kind of interchangeable but you know nothing really replaces the you know the first-person view that you're gonna get from something like this however glass itself has long raised privacy worries does the capability to livestream easily from glass possibly without the consent of those you're filming heighten those concerns perhaps you know I think it's a kind of it's a balance between you know privacy and journalism and you know going back to the to the urban journalist filming you know all sorts of crisis moments around the world you know yes maybe there are privacy concerns but I think you know the information that it shares with the world you know is much more valuable than that and I think you know you're really not actually doing anything new that you couldn't do with the phone so I think it's the same concerns that were there already just the medium and the process for capturing those moments is just much more fluid and intuitive so next time you see somebody wearing glass don't forget to smile you might be on candid camera you