Facebook Live to roll out Snapchat-like filters

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: In order to improvise its live video platform, Facebook will soon roll out Snapchat-like filters.

Users can soon go live from the face-swapping MSQRD app and utilise different Snapchat-like masks and filters while the video is running.

Facebook first acquired Masquerade, the Belarusian startup behind MSQRD back in March with the intention to "continue enhancing the Facebook video experience," technology website The Verge reported on Friday.

Available later this year, the feature will help users invite a friend to "drop in" on a live broadcast.

Facebook will also let you schedule a live broadcast and has built a lobby system so people can hangout before one starts.

Both features will be available for owners of Verified Pages but Facebook expects to make them widely available shortly thereafter, the report added.

(With IANS inputs)