Google Plus Hangouts On Air feature goes public

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Google has announced that its Hangouts On Air feature is now live, allowing users to broadcast themselves to other Google Plus and YouTube users live across the web – simply check the ‘Enable Hangouts On Air’ box to stream yourself across the globe in real-time.

Features include being able to see how many people are watching your live stream, as well as the ability to upload a recording to YouTube, enabling your wit and charisma to be discussed and scrutinized by the insightful online masses.

Check out a video of the Big G’s new feature in action and go and get haircut. That shaggy mop won’t look too good beamed across the length of the interwebs, after all.

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