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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2021
Igt, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Yue Hang Tang, New Brunswick, CA;
IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an invitation that provides a description of audio content to be shared, providing a query to a user of an electronic gaming machine requesting a confirmation to play the audio content to be shared, receiving a positive response to the query, sending a command to a different electronic gaming machine to transmit the audio content to be shared, receiving the audio content to be shared from the different electronic gaming machine, identifying a subset of a plurality of speakers from a speaker array to activate based on a determined position of the user relative to the speaker array, and causing the identified subset of the plurality of speakers to output the audio content to be shared as part of a directed sound beam.