p>Microsoft is planning to take on YouTube? and Amazon's Twitch by acquiring its own livestreaming service.
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p>The Xbox maker today announced its plans to acquire live-streaming service Beam, a Seattle-based company founded by 18-year-old Matt Salsamendi.
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p>The teen who founded his company in January claims it has already had 100,000 users.
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p>Today the Xbox maker announced plans to acquire live streaming service Beam which is a Seattle-based company founded by Matt Salsamendi (18 years old).
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p>As opposed to other streaming services it allows users to influence and interact with a game streamed by a different player.
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p>Beam lets viewers suggest challenges for streamers and even alter in-game elements like weapon loadout and quest selection.
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p>Developers can also design buttons that allow viewers to interact with the games being streamed via Beam.
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p>"We at Xbox are excited by this convergence between playing and watching and we want our players to have the flexibility and choice of amazing multiplayer experiences across all Beam's platforms," Chad Gibson, a program manager of partner groups at Microsoft's Xbox Live division said in an announcement.
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p>"This acquisition will allow gamers to play the games they love with the people they enjoy, and on the devices they prefer."
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p>No terms of the deal were revealed.
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p>He explained how the system may work with Minecraft.
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p>'Using 'Minecraft' as one example with Beam you don't just watch your favorite streamer play and you get to play along with them.
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p>"You can take on them and make in-real-time decisions that impact their gameplay, like tools, quests, movement, and more. All of this is possible through simple visual controls."
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p>Salsamendi declares that Beam will continue to run even if the team members of his join into the Xbox engineering team.
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p>In a blog post on Beam's website, Salsamendi says the service grew to around 100,000 users after launching in January of this year.
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p>'As part of Xbox we'll be able scale faster than we've been able to before", according to the article.
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p>We're expanding our team, strengthening our infrastructure, and most importantly, we're continuing to expand and help the incredible community at Beam.' https://docdro.id/7oNlPoW </p>
p>The 18-year-old CEO and founder of the company.
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p>After running a massive game server platform hosting Minecraft servers for four years, Matthew Salsamendi, at the age of 18, decided to launch Beam.
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p>The startup, based in Seattle, allows creators to chat with their viewers and let them control certain parts of the game that is streamed.
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p>Players interacting through Beam can control the gameplay of the person streaming, performing things like deciding which weapon loadout they take into battle for multiplayer shooters, for example.
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p>It was launched at TechCrunch? NY 2016 and took home the Startup Battlefield competition.
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p>TechCrunch? Disrupt Startup Battlefield Winners Matt Salsamendi of Beam pose for photos during TechCrunch? Disrupt NY 2016, Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, May 11 on the 11th of May in 2016.
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p>Salsamendi from Bellevue in Seattle is 'passionate about high-availability infrastructure and web performance!' according to his bio.
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p>It adds that he can be found programming, designing lighting for theaters, flying planes and making short films in his spare time.
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p>However it appears that even Salsamendi was not anticipating the way things would go during a recent interview with Geekwire, when asked if he would you rather have Gates, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner, he answered"Zuckerberg, hands down.
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p>"He has an unique global perspective on human interaction and community.
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p>We serve as a social network for gamers, and Zuckerberg is the king of social.
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