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hey everybody I'm Sean okay and I'm a reporter with the verge and we're here at the Verge's lounge here in the Las Vegas Convention Center welcome everybody we have a very special guest here this is the CEO of livestream Jesse Hertzberg Jesse thanks for coming good morning you guys had a pretty cool announcement this week that you basically kicked CES off with and that was that you guys made a commercial product a camera that's actually doing some really cool stuff and one that I'm really excited to play with later this year this is the mobi and why don't you tell me a little bit how it works sure so movies the first video camera from livestream you can use it for recording or streaming or both simultaneously it's a 4k device that is controlled by an iOS app and what it allows you to do is from the 4k picture crop up to nine virtual HD cameras so if the two of us were say shooting a video clip for the web instead of having a three camera set up with a production crew we could use one movie camera and have someone on the iOS app and they'd be able to cut to you cut to me cut wide zoom in on the product as if there were three cameras in front of us so you're telling me that this camera like theoretically you could take all of my co-workers job someday it won't take their jobs it obviously isn't gonna replicate the production quality right but you have about $70,000 of equipment here and for most folks that's out of reach or two rented about five thousand dollars to rent it for the week and what this does is put that kind of power and multi camera storytelling into the hands of people who can't necessarily afford it every day so you take this thing and you can set it on the table you can put it on a tripod you can put it on this battery extender here and you just let it run and then you use the iPhone or iPad app to just live direct right correct you hit the record button or the go live button and then you just direct live the camera also will detect faces detect voices and detect motion so if you want you can put the app down and the app will auto direct for you and it does a pretty good job it'll cut to whoever's talking if I have a big reaction it'll cut to me if you talk for too long it will cut wide if you keep talking it will cut back to you so you say low-cost give us an idea how much it's gonna cost and when people are gonna be able to go out buy it sure so the camera is gonna sell for 399 when it ships in April it's currently available for pre-order on get movie comm for 199 so that's 50% off during them during the pre order while supplies last and then the black device that you see next to you is the movie boost accessory the movie boost accessory takes the one hour battery life of the camera and extends it to over ten hours so I've heard you say the word 4k a bunch and we're here at the Consumer Electronics Show where a lot of little cameras a lot of action cameras to or announce always like 4k there's someone 360-degree video is there something coming after this are you guys looking to get in like the action camera game something with 360 degree or like you focus on events we're very focused on events were very focused on those moments when you need your camera to run for a long time when you need to capture 30 minutes that 3 hours of footage in a single the lock shot is just gonna be really boring to watch for three hours when you watch TV or when you watch sports the director uses multiple cameras to bring you into the story and to make you feel like you're at the event and a single lock shot even when we talked about the Little League game a single lock shot doesn't accomplish that so with movi whether it's an event or a stage performance or whatnot you can use those multiple camera shots those different angles to really bring that story to life and that's very much what we're focused on we love our GoPros we love our iPhone they all have different purposes and our focus is on events cool well the camera is called the movie it's gonna be out later this year thanks so much to take some time to come talk to us I can't wait to play around with it we get one into the office but thanks for coming thank you for more from CES 2016 head to the verge comm go to youtube.com slash the verge and click subscribe and have fun at the board lounge