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LightTwist
Record & stream your show in a realistic virtual studio
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Record & stream your show in a realistic virtual studio
129 followers
LightTwist lets you record & stream in a realistic virtual studio, even if your guests and co-hosts are remote. LightTwist is a virtual video studio that runs in Chrome, with a backend virtual production platform utilizing realtime computer vision for background removal and compositing, Unreal Engine 5 for rendering, and WebRTC for A/V streaming. It runs in realtime so you can live stream or record "live to tape", with a live preview so you see exactly what's getting streamed or recorded.
LightTwist
@thys_beesman we only support Chrome for now, but guests can join with just a browser!
That upload-the-raw-take-and-be-your-own-producer path is exactly the safety net I was after — seek/pause playback on the take kills the bad-camera-change-means-reshoot risk for a solo creator. When I upload that external recording, does the background removal match the live path's quality, or is the live WebRTC key tuned differently than processing a clean pre-recorded file? Wondering if the offline route is actually the higher-quality one to default to.
Ran a quick test with a friend and the background replacement actually felt believable, not that flat cut-out look you usually get from browser tools. Nice that you can tweak the scene live while recording.
The realtime Unreal Engine 5 rendering in Chrome is genuinely impressive - the fact that guests on slow connections still get composited cleanly without that awful smearing you usually see is a real feat of engineering.
The live preview that mirrors exactly what gets streamed is such a thoughtful touch, it takes the guesswork out of remote recordings and feels like something a real broadcast team would demand.
The browser-based setup is wild, no install needed and the Unreal-rendered backgrounds actually look believable on a webcam. Latency held up fine even with a remote co-host on my end.
Finally a chrome based virtual studio that doesn't feel like a gimmick. The Unreal rendered backgrounds look genuinely believable even with messy lighting from my home office.