1.What possibilities can metaverse bring to games?
The trending "metaverse" concept was first coined in an American science fiction to refer to a cyberspace parallel to the reality. Games are the closest form of metaverse. From mainstream perspectives, metaverse games deliver a real and immersive interactive and social networking experience by allowing players to interact, create, and exchange value freely and boasting diverse and inclusive cultures and content.
2.What challenges in voice technologies need to be tackled to implement metaverse features in games?
Metaverse games have high requirements for an interactive experience and need to tackle the following core challenges to implement voice technologies: sense of direction, immersive experience, cross-platform compatibility, and barrier-free multilingual communication.
•Sense of Voice Direction
In interaction-intensive social gaming, the most important interaction method is game voice. When people are talking in the real world, the voice direction and distance also convey a large amount of information in addition to the volume level and tone. How to enable players to communicate like in the real world and how to convey the directional information in the game voice are top priorities for developers.
•Immersive Voice Experience
In addition to the voice direction and distance, the voice of people in the real world also integrates with the environment. When people are talking, they can perceive effects such as reverb and diffraction of their voice generated in the environment. How to integrate the voice with the environment to maximize the real immersive experience for players is also a major challenge.
•Cross-Platform Compatibility
Players log in to a game from different terminals and devices. How to implement smooth game voice, make the game compatible with tens of thousands of device models available on the market, and enable players on game consoles, mobile devices, and PCs to talk with one another are major challenges for developers.
•Barrier-Free Communication
Metaverse games allow players from different cultures and languages to have fun in an open metaverse and even switch their accents like Millie in Free Guy. To helpHelping players speaking different languages communicate without barriers creates higher requirements for games.
3.GME Empowers Games with Boundless Imagination of Metaverse
GME 3D Position-Based Voice
3D voice conveys direction and position information to make the voice more stereo. In battle royale and FPS games with an ever-changing battle situation, voice-based position identification greatly improves players' communication efficiency during multi-player team battles. In social games such as Werewolf, the sense of voice direction gives players a more truly interactive experience and enhances their memory even in roundtable discussions with strangers.
By adopting HRTF and distance-based equalization technologies, GME's unique realistic 3D sound effect can completely restore the position details of voice and virtualize the auditory perception of the sound source in any position in a space. This enables players to identify teammates' positions in game battles based on their voice and enjoy an immersive gaming experience.
The 3D position-based sound effect is also available for different types of games, including MOBA, FPS, ARPG, Werewolf, space Werewolf, and board game.
Immersive Experience: Real-Time Sound Effect Processing by Wwise + GME
How to integrate the voice and game environment has always been a challenge for game audio engineers. In traditional mobile game voice solutions, audio engineers usually have to give up carefully crafted background sound effects due to the poor audio quality of players' mic.
GME has developed a proprietary solution jointly with the industry-leading sound effect engine Wwise, which well integrates the player voice with the pipeline design of game sound effects, fundamentally solving problems occurring during volume type switch in traditional voice solutions, such as volume level jump and audio quality reduction.
Moreover, based on powerful audio processing capabilities and rich sound effect plugins of Wwise, GME can implement sound effects such as reverb, diffraction, and insulation that are perfectly integrated with the game scenes in captured voice chat streams, which not only makes voice gameplay features more diverse, but also makes player communication more immersive.
In addition to perfect integration with the environment sound effect, the Wwise + GME solution also allows you to customize the processing of each voice stream, leaving you more room for designing diverse voice gameplay features. For example, you can design special sound effects based on the character of players and the changes in their status in game scenes, for example, using a quaver to express pain after being hit by the enemy.
As the unique global official voice partner of Wwise, GME is perfectly compatible and easy to connect.
Fun: GME Voice Changing Effects
GME also provides the voice changingvoice-changing feature for voice chat. In game voice interaction, players can freely switch between dozens of sound effects like from a middle-aged man to a little girl or from a cute girl to a nerd, so as to add more personality to their characters and make chat more amusing. In the metaverse, players are no longer constrained by their real-world identity and can switch their tone and personality at any time.
Powerful Cross-Terminal Compatibilities of GME
As the only Chinese voice development tool that makes the list of third-party development tools and middleware for Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®️4, and PlayStation®️5, GME provides SDKs for consoles and is compatible with the latest versions of all console platforms. It features deep optimizations for UE, Unity, Cocos, and other major game engines, supports macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android systems, and is adapted to 20,000+ device models.
Barrier-Free Multilingual Communication
GME helps you easily implement multilingual communication scenarios. It can convert voice messages and voice chat streams to text in up to 125 languages, eliminating the language barriers in communication. It returns high-accuracy recognition results at a low latency to help implement barrier-free communication across regions and cultures in games.
Metaverse is not only a popular concept in the investment and technology fields, but also a long-term vision in the game industry. GME brings a brand new interactive voice experience to game developers and aims to continuously explore more possibilities of metaverse jointly with all industries.
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