[extropy-chat] An excellent overview of SecondLife from a futurist persective

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Thanks Neil for the pointer to Vivox. Their website does not say
anythong about availability of the software or service, do you know
anything more?
I have a TeamSpeak server and also use a Ventrilo server. The quality
is not bad at all, but I have not experimented with more than 10
simultaneous users.
G.

On 4/3/06, Neil H. <neuronexmachina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/2/06, "Hal Finney" <hal at finney.org> wrote:
>
> I wonder why Second Life hasn't taken advantage of VoIP software. Plenty of
> online games already make use of things like Roger Wilco and TeamSpeak to
> allow for voice communication between participants. Could also be
> interesting to try combining it with text-to-speech or speech-to-text
> software.
>
> Actually, after some googling it looks like a company called Vivox is trying
> to do some related things:
>
> http://www.mpogd.com/news/?ID=1962
>
> "To make the case for what Vivox is capable of, Sharma logged into a test
> area in Second Life on his laptop to demonstrate an audio technology demo.
> The environment was a bustling restaurant, where the wireless broadband
> connection was not ideal. That said, I donned a pair of headphones and
> listed as Sharma's character walked to an in-game phone booth and punched
> the digits to his own cell phone, which then promptly rang. Using VoIP
> calling like other Internet telephony services such as Vonage, Sharma
> blurred the line between in-game and real-world communications. After that,
> the avatar was walked into a nearby room, where another Vivox developer was
> lounging on a couch as a character. Using the laptop microphone, Sharma and
> I were able to carry on a conversation with him at roughly the quality of a
> land line phone."