Emmett Shear: What streaming means for the future of entertainment
艾米特 · 斯爾: 串流轉播在未來的娛樂中扮演什麼角色?
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healthy communities,
play video games on the internet.
看其他人玩電玩遊戲。
truly are quite related.
together in small tribes.
was both shared and interactive.
是共享的,也是互動的。
on the grand scale of human history
一直要到最近期,
into our vehicles, into our homes.
帶到我們的車上、家中。
into our living rooms.
帶到我們的客廳裡。
was unprecedented.
這是前所未見的情況。
around the globe.
帶給全球各地的人。
for millions of people.
or listen to Mozart,
expensive ticket and find an orchestra.
也不用去找交響樂團。
with people around the world.
between creator and consumer,
became much more one-way.
變得越來越單向。
a smaller class of professional creators
for us to enjoy that content alone.
輕鬆享受這些內容。
was famous for its café culture.
咖啡文化很有名。
of that café culture
that were hard to get,
and read the shared copy there.
also reading the same newspaper,
也在閱讀同一份報紙的人,
the game at home.
your fellow sports fans there.
to fall over time thanks to technology,
媒體的價格隨時間一直下降,
our communities together falls away.
共同必要性漸漸消失。
for our entertainment,
to wind up consuming those options alone.
獨自一人去消費這些選擇。
are bearing the consequences.
兩名親密好友的人數
having at least two close friends
contributing causes to this
allows us to be separate.
this atomization of our society:
這種社會的分化:
may have beautiful animations,
of 20 years ago.
在智力上更具有刺激性了,
they're intrinsically social.
exemplifying this change
就放大了這項變革,
in a last-man-standing competition.
kind of like "American Idol,"
and a lot less Simon Cowell.
(西蒙 · 高維爾)。
of the battle royale genre,
than 250 million people around the world.
有兩億五千萬人。
in your neighborhood
play video games.
may have been simple puzzles or quests,
和《超級瑪莉》
and then internet play,
接著是網路遊戲,
of huge, thriving online communities,
所玩的大規模多玩家遊戲,
as the one form of entertainment
human connection.
需要人類連結的消費。
playing video games?
自己玩電玩遊戲的過程?
of people around the world
there's a giant green rectangle.
有一塊巨大的綠色矩形。
穿著一致服裝的外星人
sphere between two posts
推到兩根柱子之間。
所以球只是來來回回,
of people watching from home anyway,
and engaged right along with them.
歡呼、興奮、投入。
和我父親一起看球賽,
is entertaining and engaging.
很有娛樂性和吸引力。
"Dancing with the Stars"
that you really enjoy,
watching other people do it
is a human universal.
是人類的普遍現象。
this live, interactive entertainment,
just doesn't feel as fulfilling.
has taken off with video games.
和電玩遊戲會一同起飛。
that same kind of interactive feeling.
同樣的互動感。
what's happening on Twitch,
of a million livestreams of video games.
is millions of campfires.
of thousands of people around them.
有幾十萬人圍在旁邊。
more intimate community gatherings
更像是親密的社群聚會,
by one of those campfires right now.
一個營火旁邊找位置坐下。
柯:嘿,你好嗎,艾米特?
大約一千個好朋友,
with about 1,000 of my closest friends,
and join you guys for a little stream.
to hear from you guys.
with the TED audience here --
和 TED 觀眾分享一下——
about your community on Twitch?
你有什麼想法?
for over five years now,
cease to impress me on the daily,
仍然會讓我感到驚奇,
this whole thing is for communication.
在溝通方面有多不可思議。
for 20 years of my life,
時間已有二十年,
團體超過十年,
where there's very few places in life
so many people with similar interests.
營火的比喻,我的比喻也類似。
I actually use a similar one.
沙發上,但只有一個人有遙控器。
on a big couch
a "Pass the snack!" situation, you know?
in chat right now?
聊天室那邊的狀況如何?
but I see a lot of emotes.
但我看到很多表情符號。
this is the Cohhilition.
叫做 Cohhilition。
剛完成了連續兩千天的挑戰,
a 2,000-day challenge,
a pretty incredible community
一個很了不起的社群。
about 6200 people with us.
在狂發「哈囉,TED」、
of "Hello, TED" good-vibe emotes,
「嗨,大家好」。
collection of people --
a positive event together.
我們能在聊天中做調查嗎?
can we poll chat?
that chat would like the world,
here with me at TED right now,
out of playing video games
以及成為社群的一部分
a lot of answers here.
the rough patches in life."
人生的辛苦時刻。」
I definitely see a lot on Twitch,
常常看到這種訊息,
「很多正能量。」
to my TED talk,
回到我的 TED 演說之前,
get back to doing at some point --
你想要和我分享的嗎?
that you want to share with me
to get out there before an audience?
what you're doing right now.
of the future in entertainment,
尚未探索的重要邊境,
everything you're doing up there.
對這上面的人就越好。
about what you do, the better --
to giving this talk now,
what happened on the stream,
在串流中所發生的事,
the experience along with him,
一起共同創造體驗,
with chat and with Cohh.
有了多玩家的體驗。
我們開始將之稱為
to watching a live interactive stream
going from playing a single-player game
of exploration in new technology.
探索新科技的最前線。
were used early on for video games,
是用在電玩遊戲上的,
mass-market devices weren't cell phones,
of what the future might hold
其中一個方式就是
sandbox of video games
測試版的電玩遊戲,
這些遊戲玩家在做什麼?」
as to what the future is going to hold
了解我們大家的未來會是怎樣的。
we're already seeing on Twitch
看到的其中一個現象
coming to sports.
to offer livestreaming football,
聯盟合作,提供足球串流直播,
in suits streaming the game,
用串流直播比賽,
on their own channel
來進行串流直播,
look out into the future --
get to be sports announcers.
可以當運動播報員。
who have that opportunity.
who wants to around the world
任何人,只要想要,
to become a sports announcer,
incredible amounts of new talent
釋出不可思議的新人才。
「你有看到比賽嗎?」
"Did you catch the game?"
with cooking, with singing --
看到這個現象了——
around the metaphorical campfire.
營火的比喻一樣逐漸發生。
of these campfires lit
會有數百萬個營火被點燃。
with your people around the world.
娛樂就是多玩家的。
in the town square in person,
turned into a one-way transmission.
轉變成了單向的傳輸。
could connect us instead of isolating us.
而不是孤立我們。
over our shared interests
將我們連結在一起,
they encourage,
to turn the wheel back
才剛開始將轉輪反轉,
multiplayer past.
充滿社群的多玩家娛樂。
this experience here with me,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emmett Shear - Entrepreneur, investorEmmett Shear is the CEO and cofounder of Twitch and its predecessor justin.tv.
Why you should listen
Emmett Shear has lead Twitch -- a service that's helping to change the way people create, consume and participate in their entertainment -- since its founding in 2011. While it's known for gaming live-streams and esports, Twitch creators and communities have expanded to include music, traditional sports, cooking, the creative arts and more. Today, more than a million people, on average, are tuning in to Twitch at any given time to watch, chat and connect with people who share their passions.
Shear's unique perspective combines his experience as both an entrepreneur and part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator, where he advises startups on product and strategy. He graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a degree in computer science.
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