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Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their video during chat sessions. The platform formerly known as Twitter announced the news on Wednesday as owner \/ CTO Elon Musk reposted<\/a> a walkthrough from a user named “Dogedesigner.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Spaces users will notice a new option to \u201cenable video\u201d when they first create a new Spaces session. Hosts can opt for either their phone\u2019s front or back-facing cameras as well as either a landscape or vertical view of their video feed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Video Spaces are available on the iOS version of the X app, but we haven\u2019t seen them available on Android or the web yet.\u00a0Multiple users reported significant lag while trying out the feature so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Right now, only hosts have the ability to turn on video. The end result is a prominent display<\/a> of the host\u2019s video feed, which is then surrounded by icons of co-hosts, speakers, and any listeners. At first glance, it\u2019s an environment that resembles Twitch \u2014 expect for the fact that any selected audience members can chime in at any minute. A host\u2019s video feed also only lives inside a Spaces session, so users will have to join the session in order to tune in. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n When Elon Musk announced that Spaces would get video late last year, his description of it sounded closer<\/a> to a videoconferencing app or video call app like FaceTime, where the video feed switches to whoever is currently speaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But for now, a typical Spaces with video session prominently features the host\u2019s video feed<\/a>, which is surrounded by the smaller icons of any other speakers, co-hosts, or listeners in the room. It\u2019s not exactly <\/em>like Twitch since anyone you give permission to can speak back to you, but it does turn the host into the main event in a similar fashion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The new video integration of X Spaces is separate from the platform\u2019s existing live broadcast feature<\/a>, which lets users directly livestream video. Spaces functions as a live chatroom, where multiple users can tune in and speak. In contrast, the audience in a typical live broadcast can only comment or send hearts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n