Gadgetory

if you thought snapchat was weird wait until you get a load of hype from the makers of the now-defunct vine app comes a brand new app for a live broadcast video and the twist is how you add multimedia and interact with viewers you can add photos and text and gifts and you can even move them around in real time and that's what adds personal charm to each hype but before you go live you'll want to give your presentation some pizzazz the default starts with a gray background to change it hold your finger down on the background and you'll see a menu with several animations your background can also be a photo an animated gif or a video from your camera roll you begin with a video and a circle cut out but you can change the shape of the window or when it's a square you can crop it and then zoom in and out or spin it around if you don't want to be in the broadcast tapping the ghost icon will mute your mic and hide the video window click the plus sign to add photos and video or select multiple images to create a slideshow you can also add music to play in the background or text tapping the search icon pulls up animated gifts and vines because you can never be too weird on the Internet all of these elements are stacked like a deck of cards you can bring an item to the front by selecting it and tapping the layer icon if you want something to fill the screen tap the double arrow icon in the right corner and tap it again to shrink it back down here's the best part when you go alive you can keep adding moving or deleting elements in real time while interacting when your audience comments and you can highlight someone's comments tap on a message in the chat window and it appears as a chat bubble in your video yes you have to interact that's the whole point and if people like you they'll subscribe to you and be alerted the next time you go live some people have even crafted their own theme talk shows out of this I mean just look at some of these people with their weird shows everyone wants to be a star and what drives them the sparkles viewers tap a part of the screen to make it sparkle to show that they like something it makes it also magical it's hard to tell right now if hype will become the next video creation sensation but one thing's for sure hype has the right blend of inner weirdness to work for CNET I'm Bridget Carey