Wired Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO
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Despite all the hate it gets, anyone who's been to Coachella knows it's a damn good time.
Key facts
- The festival’s EDM- and DJ-oriented Quasar stage, livestreaming on YouTube shorts all weekend, was shot exclusively on Google Pixel devices
- The reporter attended once in 2024, where the reporter was welcomed as a Coachella elder
- Not for 18 hours over the course of a weekend, as the reporter learn
- Bravo will soon be pushing out vertical videos hosted by the AI avatar of Andy Cohen to share “iconic scenes” from its sprawling universe of reality TV
Summary
The reporter attended once in 2024, where the reporter was welcomed as a Coachella elder. Luckily, the reporter has a smartphone. Coachella’s feeds got a quality boost this year, now streaming seven stages exclusively on YouTube, with 4K video and multiview options that you can swap between like they’re Olympic events. Vertical video is everywhere.