Second Life Voice has arrived!
Yesterday morning KFH Pooraka and I sat down at her picnic table for a chat. Only this time we actually talked in Real Life. It was amazing! I’m not sure how I feel about have actual voice chat with complete strangers but for friends it takes Second Life to a new level.
The Voice feature is only available right now in the First Look Viewer, so go to www.secondlife.com and at the bottom of the page is “download” where you will find the First Look Viewer. Not every SIM has voice yet either but Kirsty’s land has it and Magnatune has it. My private islands don’t yet but I’m sure they will convert the servers to it soon.
I’m looking forward to “talking” to all of you soon!
July 10, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Well, I am recovering from a throat operation at the moment and can’t speak for a couple of weeks yet…!
I am ambivalent about voice. Chatting by typing gives you the ability to talk while listening to music for example, which you couldn’t do with voice. Yet it will be nice to talk to people. Like you, Jan, I will probably use it mainly with friends, and it will certainly be more convenient than “act in SL while talking on Skype” that some of us do at the moment.
In addition, my fundamental concern with SL on the technical side is the usual one: I would prefer to get the bits that are already there to work before adding new bits. The Macintosh Viewer for example has some major issues that don’t seem to be being addressed. However… I am sure that voice will be a major thing and will change SL quite a lot for many of us – I look forward to playing with it… when I can!
–Rik