Give players a megaphone for chants and announcements

sermuns commented

2026-10-26 09:01:55 +00:00

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Proximity voice handles a conversation, but a campus event needs someone who can be heard over the crowd. A megaphone is a social gadget: hold it up, press to talk, and your voice carries farther and sounds like it comes through a cone. The alternate use can play a short chant, a horn or a countdown, which is most of what a student event needs.

How it fits. Voice already rides the websocket with a reach that comes from proximity, so the megaphone raises that reach for one speaker and applies a band-limited, slightly distorted filter. The canned sounds are positional events through the existing sound path, not new assets. A held pose and a cone model are enough for peers to see why someone is loud. The protocol needs a per-speaker mute and a rate limit, because one megaphone can otherwise own the whole campus.

Scope.

Hold to speak with a longer reach and a cone filter.
Alternate use plays a horn
A visible megaphone and a held pose.

Proximity voice handles a conversation, but a campus event needs someone who can be heard over the crowd. A megaphone is a social gadget: hold it up, press to talk, and your voice carries farther and sounds like it comes through a cone. The alternate use can play a short chant, a horn or a countdown, which is most of what a student event needs. **How it fits.** Voice already rides the websocket with a reach that comes from proximity, so the megaphone raises that reach for one speaker and applies a band-limited, slightly distorted filter. The canned sounds are positional events through the existing sound path, not new assets. A held pose and a cone model are enough for peers to see why someone is loud. The protocol needs a per-speaker mute and a rate limit, because one megaphone can otherwise own the whole campus. **Scope.** - Hold to speak with a longer reach and a cone filter. - Alternate use plays a horn - A visible megaphone and a held pose.

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2026-10-26 09:02:35 +00:00

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2026-10-26 17:24:26 +00:00

Opt in to open mic and add a megaphone #289

sermuns commented

2026-10-27 10:02:39 +00:00