Jury Hahn

PLAY MEGAPHONE 3001

\"MEGAPHONE3001\" is exciting multiplayer big screen games where your phone becomes your controller!

www.playmegaphone.com

"MEGAPHONE3001" is a multiplayer real-time collaborative telephony platform for use on large screens in public space such as sports arenas and concert venues, and movie theaters. It isn't a mobile application, but a phone system that users can call in to. The phone system reacts to buttons and voice to control a screen near the user. It can be used for information, advertising, and is currently setup as a series of games.

www.timeplay.com
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Audience Interaction paper(http://www.monzy.org/audience/)

1. Any people in public space.
2. Any client that needs it (for example: Screen, Billboard, Media owners, Venue owners.).

1. Call MEGAPHONE3001
2. Player\'s avatar and callerID shows up on the screen
3. Animate avatar by pressing digit (each digit has different behavior)
4. Wait for 30 sec after last caller called
5. Game initiation, animation with instruction
6. Trivia starts
7. Users can choose answer only once
8. If user\'s answer is wrong, system disconnects them
9. After 3 or 4 trivia questions, start second chance game in order to give \"losers\" the opportunity to rejoin main trivia game.
10. Trivia and second chance games get harder and faster with each round.
11. Give prize to people who survive through the last question.

MEGAPHONE3001 is using VoIP technology to be compatible with any phone. It receives a phone call as voice over IP and it processes the key press data and voice data which can be either pitch or volume and sends it to the application running on the display.

On a technical level, if the latency between the user\'s button press and the update on the screen is too long, or users have different latency to the same screen, then realtime games can\'t be developed perfectly. But the realtime integration of button tone AND voice data combined with refined interaction design, graphics, and sound makes a user experience far above what raw code can deliver.

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