Bunch of media apps and whatnot have a share feature to allow someone to listen to what you’re listening to from their own device, but a few of them are advertising it with people physically hanging out together using it. Man, if they are ij the same room and have their own headphones, they can just connect their headphones to my phone and we both listen to the song at the same time from the same player. AFAIK, there’s not really a limit to how many devices you can connect via bluetooth. I know you can get at least 3 headphone sets going on mine before it starts to lag a bit.
The reason it exists primarily is so that music venues and museums and such can provide broadcast audio for accessibility and just in general without requiring people to use their janky headsets from the 80s. Once it exists and is actually in the hardware for the Bluetooth chips, the work to plug together a UI for it is relatively small for what looks like a big feature.
It also has some pretty good power savings over actually pairing a device, since neither device is looking for return communication to any significant degree, and it’s geared for not giving the headphones device control in the way that a paired device gets.
Overall it’s a good innovation, but not the most clear to market how you’ll use it every day.
Bunch of media apps and whatnot have a share feature to allow someone to listen to what you’re listening to from their own device, but a few of them are advertising it with people physically hanging out together using it. Man, if they are ij the same room and have their own headphones, they can just connect their headphones to my phone and we both listen to the song at the same time from the same player. AFAIK, there’s not really a limit to how many devices you can connect via bluetooth. I know you can get at least 3 headphone sets going on mine before it starts to lag a bit.
The reason it exists primarily is so that music venues and museums and such can provide broadcast audio for accessibility and just in general without requiring people to use their janky headsets from the 80s. Once it exists and is actually in the hardware for the Bluetooth chips, the work to plug together a UI for it is relatively small for what looks like a big feature.
It also has some pretty good power savings over actually pairing a device, since neither device is looking for return communication to any significant degree, and it’s geared for not giving the headphones device control in the way that a paired device gets.
Overall it’s a good innovation, but not the most clear to market how you’ll use it every day.
It is also a feature that should have come with the first version of bluetooth. Two devices listening at the same time is a no brainer.
Maybe an iphone feature. Android I haven’t been able to connect more than 1 headset at once :(
I remember this website where you’d log on with your friends from wherever and each take turns choosing the next song