By now, you’ve heard of Google’s new social network Google Plus (G+).
Among all of the great features, the one that gets talked about the most is the ‘Hangout’ where up to ten people can participate in a video chat; either public or private. It’s bone-head easy and works great!
I pretty much always have my guitar in my hands–even when surfing the web. It’s nothing new to me. Whenever I would see a hangout float down the stream, I would pop-in, say ‘Hi’ and play a bit and split. Folks in the hangout have generally reacted very positively. I would always offer to not play (or mute my channel) because I didn’t want to be that obnoxious guy who imposes his guitar playing on everyone. That offer has, so far, always been declined.
Edit By request, I’ve decided to make this tune available for streaming and download. As always, “Pay What You think it’s Worth.”
One potential use for this amazing tool is a real-time jam session with musicians in remote locations. There is still plenty of lag for this not to be totally useful for this yet, but I can see it coming. That gave me the idea to make this video: a Proof of Concept of sorts.
I didn’t know that you’ve got your own blog, I’m you’re number 1 fan! You did a great job on playing mario bros song, I keep on playing it, all over again! I hope I could download an MP3 of this on my phone, this would be a very cool ring tone! LMAO! Keep on rocking!!!
I’ll be more than happy to make this available for download. More soon.
I’ve just downloaded it… Thank you so much, Rob! =)
Very nice!
Very cool! Myself and a couple of friends have been experimenting with ninjam for these online (almost) real-time collaborations but G+’s Hangouts looks to offer an interesting alternative. So how did you tackle the latency issues?
Dave, the latency issue was not tackled for this particular video.
This video was really made for two reasons:
1. I think the G+ Hangout has the potential as a realtime tool for musical collaborated. I did not actually ‘Hangout’ with myself, this video is edited to illustrate a “Proof of Concept.”
2. I always wanted to play the Mario Bros song. This provided me an excuse to do it.
…thanks for checking it out.
I love the concept of a Google+ jam. Looked at ninjam too, but never went anywhere with it.