[HN Gopher] Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet
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Show HN: 2D Tilemap on Top of Jitsi Meet
Author : moron4hire
Score : 82 points
Date : 2020-04-03 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| transitivebs wrote:
| Really interesting idea!
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| Screenshots in the readme would do wonders for getting the point
| across.
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| Now if only Zoom had a robust plugin system...
| moron4hire wrote:
| Got it in there now!
| moron4hire wrote:
| Open for contributions! I just wanted to prove out the core
| concept of scaling the audio. Now that I know that works, really
| want to dig into making art assets and interactions for people.
| clord wrote:
| Would be cool to have a podium that a user can step up to and
| speak to all with no falloff. Perhaps with some sort of
| permission or nomination.
| disk0 wrote:
| TSaaS (Talking Stick as a Service)
| moron4hire wrote:
| I got a phone call after posting this today that makes me
| think you might be able to find a VC in SV willing to pay for
| that.
| moron4hire wrote:
| That's a cool idea, I like it.
| detaro wrote:
| Cool idea! Positional audio is something IMHO underused in todays
| conference solutions. (Mumble supports it out of the box, but as
| far as I know its position sources are all game plugins)
| moron4hire wrote:
| Thanks. Positional audio teleconf in the browser was something
| I hacked on back 5 years ago when WebVR first came out.
| Unfortunately, Google broke positional audio, then WebVR, then
| changed a lot of how WebAudio worked.
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| Lately, I'm involved with a few meetups that miss the dynamic
| of a real meetup. So I threw this together to hopefully get
| some semblance of the meetup space again.
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| It's really simple. Jitsi Meet has a web app API that basically
| loads a standard Jitsi Meet install in an iframe, with some
| inter-window communication setup using Window.postMessage. I
| add a small hack on Jitsi Meet's default install to take my own
| postMessage calls to sniff out the HTML audio elements Jitsi
| Meet creates and modifies their volume.
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| For the position of participants, I use Jitsi Meets inter-user
| text messaging system to send data packages. Then I just scale
| each user's audio volume based on a linear scale. Anyone closer
| than 3 squares is rendered in full volume, and anyone further
| than 14 is muted. And of course, settings in the scripts to
| scale these values. They could even be per-user, if they wanted
| to scale how well they can hear.
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| There's no stereo pan or ambisonics, but hopefully the volume
| level scaling is enough to make for useful meetups.
| dvno42 wrote:
| This is really neat. I logged in for a few seconds to check out
| the interface (should have taken a screenshot). The center of the
| meeting shows a large white square window and smaller colored
| squares indicating other meeting participants. You can drag your
| square (avatar) around the window to place yourself next to
| others.
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| I have a standing virtual happy hour with some friends every
| week. If I can figure out how to get this to work with my
| docker/traefik deployment, I'll have to try it with my friend
| group and see how it works.
|
| Thanks for creating and sharing this!
| moron4hire wrote:
| Jitsi Meet itself is really easy to setup. My "game" is just a
| static HTML file that uses the Jitsi Meet web API, _except_ for
| the volume control. Because Jitsi Meet 's Web API installs
| through an iframe, I had to modify the web files for my install
| slightly.
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| It's one additional line in `/use/share/jitsi-meet/index.html`
| to include a very small JS file that sets up a RPC pipe between
| my window and the Jitsi Meet window.
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| Other than that, I wore everything in vanilla JS and HTML5, so
| there aren't any other dependencies to manage, no build systems
| to run. Just dump the files somewhere (I'm running the front
| end in Azure CDN right now) and go.
| ebg13 wrote:
| Got any screenshots?
| moron4hire wrote:
| In the readme now!
| talkingtab wrote:
| I think this is great. Thanks! I'm new to jitsi, so is this audio
| only or can you get a video to work as well? Lots of interesting
| things. Great work.
| moron4hire wrote:
| Jitsi does video by default. I turned it off because... The map
| is in the way, you won't see it. Plus, I plan to do
| customizable avatars.
|
| I'm generally of the opinion that the video feed is useless in
| 90% of teleconferencing situations.
| talkingtab wrote:
| I 90% agree with your opinion. A video does add some useful
| information, but 90% of the benefit could come from a small
| window of the person(s) you are talking to- maybe 90px by
| 90px.
| moron4hire wrote:
| Unfortunately, not going to work with how Jitsi does their
| Web API through an iframe. Ol' OpenTok, before they got
| bought out by Vonage, could have been used because they
| inftected new DOM elements into the current page. But with
| the Jisti Meet interface timing in an iframe, I just don't
| have enough access to composite things like that.
| PTOB wrote:
| It made me quite happy to be able to leave the meeting entirely.
| Do you think you could turn this into an Ad-hoc D&D dungeon so
| that when you leave, you could take a party out into the rest of
| the "office" and fight mutated paperclips, overstuffed file
| cabinets, and disorganized supply closets?
| moron4hire wrote:
| Make the tileset and I'll make it happen :)
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