In the early 2000s, the television show Big Brother became one of the biggest hits in television history with audience records that are unthinkable today. Despite being one of the longest-running programs on television, a new edition is recorded every year, although, yes, with much less media impact than the first versions. If you’ve ever thought you’d like to attend the show, you don’t have to, as you can create your own Big Brother via Twitch.
On Twitch we can find a large number of themes where all the activities that are broadcast live through the platform are found. One of the most popular, and gaining more and more followers every year, is IRL. IRL stands for In Real Life. Within the IRL category, more and more streamers are streaming their day-to-day, especially when they’re out on the road, running errands, or even at home.
But, in addition, on Twitch, we can not only find streamers who are solely dedicated to this activity, since some of the best-known streamers also do, from time to time, this type of transmission, either playing golf, walking around a city, preparing dinner with friends, playing a game, walking their pets… In this way, they open up a little more to their audience and show that they are ordinary people .
The grace of IRLs is to go out and get away from the comfort that streamers can find in their usual workspace, so it is necessary to use adequate equipment to be able to broadcast from anywhere, using 4G or 5G mobile data , a gimbal to hold the camera as stable as possible, a harness to hold the cameras among many other accessories.
What do I need to do IRL
If we have been wanting to dedicate ourselves to the world of streaming for a while and do not know where to start, there is no need to invest in sophisticated equipment and accessories. We are only going to need a few webcams (they do not need to have high quality or autofocus like the ones streamers use), a bluetooth wireless microphone so that we can talk to people who see us without depending on a cable and an application to transmit content through Twitch, such as OBS. We can place each of the cameras in the rooms where we spend more time or carry out activities and choose that camera as the main one of the transmission.
If we want to transmit our activity from different points of view using several cameras, we can configure the application so that the main source changes randomly, in this way, we forget about the operation of the application and focus on our activity, without leaving aside the chat to answer the questions that the viewers ask us.
If our intention is not to invest a single euro in our adventure within streaming In Real Life, we can use our mobile phone through the Twitch application and transmit directly through it since it includes this option, so it is not necessary resort to third-party applications . If we do not want the quality of the transmission to be affected by lack of stability in the video, we can use a mobile support or a tripod to place it in a stable way and not move.
