Microsoft rolls out Beam streaming app to select Xbox One owners

You can now stream to more services than just Twitch directly from your Xbox One.

Microsoft is releasing an app for its Beam livestreaming service to a subset of Xbox One owners who are in the company’s Insider program. This app will enable you to view Beam streams or to broadcast some of your own gameplay to the service. If you get into the preview, you can test it out by hitting the guide button on your Xbox One controller, selecting the broadcast icon at the bottom of the menu, and opening up Beam. Like Twitch, Beam is all about bringing live gaming video content to the Web, but unlike that Amazon owned competitor, Beam has almost no delay between when you do something and when your audience sees it. This potentially enables much more social interactions between the broadcaster and their viewers, and it’s one of the primary reasons that Microsoft acquired Beam in August. Getting native support on Beam should also help the service compete for eyeballs with Twitch and YouTube in the $3.8 billion gaming-video market.