GDC23 Audio Community Meetup Livestreaming Equip

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#GameAudioGDC Morning Audio Community Meetup Equipment Donation

The Morning Audio Community Meetup is an inclusive daily conversation about what’s happening on the ground at #GameAudioGDC and is meant to reinforce each day’s activity by crowd-sourcing perspectives and surfacing parts of the conference and conference experience worth discussing. More concretely, the meetup has been pulling together the community to discuss the best parts of the preceding day and outline the upcoming day’s events while sometimes catching a few lightning bolts of epiphany. Expect a few special guests, bring your own beverage, and get ready to crack open your mind with the first dose of unbridled energy from the game audio community.

I’ll be attempting to pull off a livestream each morning of #GameAudioGDC to push the conversation off the ground in the San Francisco and to the wider audio community online (...maybe someone will even peek at the chat and bring insights back to the conversation in-person?). This continues to be a community-based personal project that extends out of years of carrying the Game Audio Podcast from the conference to the community.

Monday March 20th - Friday March 25th at 8:00am PST Daily

Location: 222 2nd Street, San Francisco

Keep 'em peeled over at YT/ @gameaudiopodcast918 https://www.youtube.com/@gameaudiopodcast/streams

I'm looking for donations from the community to help offset the rental costs for the equipment required to livestream each morning in 360° via YouTube

Here's an example of the meetup from the last year in-person: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/401078919

Technical Details:

The Ricoh Theta Z1 uses a Wi-Fi hotspot router to connect the camera and paired cell-phone to YouTube through a Plug-in running on the camera. The flow.tours HDR Wireless Live Streaming Plug-in is used on the camera to provide (up to) 4K livestreaming. The Wi-Fi hotspot I was ale to nab used has been set up with a 100GB data plan and is currently clocking 130Mbps Download/ 30Mps Upload at peak performance. There is a question about how well it will perform on the streets of San Francisco. The Z1 has a 4 capsule ambisonic microphone, however there are no level controls accessible to help with balancing. I've already rented the camera and proved the integration locally and will run some tests in-advance of the first meetup on Monday morning.

I'm open to any other technical input or volunteer support on the ground to help facilitate, please reach out if you have knowledge to share or hands to lend.

More details on the event and location coming soon as part of the "Guide to Game Audio GDC 2023" published by ASoundeffect