Amazon has introduced a new feature that’s designed to give viewers a refresh on what they’ve been watching.
The objective of X-Ray Recaps is to offer a convenient catchup that doesn’t take subscribers back to something they’ve already seen or gives them a spoiler on what’s yet to come.
The X-Ray names is taken from an existing feature where viewers pause the action and are able to get a biog of the actors currently on-screen.
X-Ray Recaps is a generative AI-powered feature that creates brief, easy-to-digest summaries of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes, personalised to the minute of watching.
“Prime Video product and technology teams work relentlessly behind the scenes to enhance customers’ viewing experience, and with the creation of X-Ray Recaps, we’re directly addressing a common problem customers face when streaming content: forgetting where they left off,” said Adam Gray, vice president of product at Prime Video. “With this context-aware functionality, Prime Video will deliver summaries of memorable moments and important plot points so our customers can quickly jump back into what they were watching or rediscover why they fell in love with a series in the first place.”
Powered by Amazon Bedrock, an AWS service for building and scaling generative AI applications with foundational models, X-Ray Recaps analyzes various video segments, combined with subtitles or dialogue, to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations.
X-Ray Recaps can be viewed at any time Prime Video detail page or during playback. Once selected, you can choose from various types of recaps, including summaries of current episodes, the season so far, or the previous season.
