Running in Circles revisited
Posted by Radar Masukami on May 9th, 2007
We’ve always had fun running in circles around each other for no particular reason, but chug and I were testing the beta grid to get ready for the last SL Podcast news (one of Pickle’s many podcasts) and found it even more fun with voice. Hearing the person’s voice go around you as they run circles around you guarantees we probably won’t stop running once the main grid has voice.
Another thing we found was of course, the accents. It’s great hearing them. And people we talked to seemed to have more fun - you could hear the lauging as we joked with total strangers and it was a lot of fun. It can be tricky at times to figure out who says what or what voice is attached to who though.
I think voice is going to be a lot of fun. Ok, some of us aren’t crazy about our voices, but I like hearing those of my friends. It’s a lot of fun.
May 10th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I’m looking forward to it. However, also trying to figure out what platform to use for the soon-to-be-revived podcaster meetups.
SL Voice limits discussions to in-world.
Skypechat opens them up to folks who can’t get in-world or keep crashing out.
May 10th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
I love the new feature - ideas and concepts that take forever to type out flow freely
May 11th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Crap, maybe have both types - skypechats for one event, in-world voice for the other. Personally when I’m inworld, I’m inworld. If I’m on skype it better be related to what I’m doing inworld or I lose interest fast as I do enough multi-tasking at work as it is.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
With Skypecasts or Skype conference, you don’t have to be nearby to chat… this helped with the air races.
Will the voice allow for hooking up people in an ad-hoc conference unrelated to proximity?
Will it allow for one-to many broadcasts?
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
banana, yeah, this is so true… as crap pointed out, skype *does* have advantages, such as when you are crashing you can let people know what’s going on, etc. but for using the voice vs typing for productivity and collaboration, there’s no contest. HOWEVER - right now you can log chat and IM’s for future, searchable reference. THAT aspect of the typed communication i will miss.