Oh, Vivox? Doesn’t that give you cancer?
Vivox recently launched their VOIP service in Second Life. It's got a couple standard features..You got the buddy list, you got the chat window and you got…. well that's it!
Ok, so it does conferences but we can't figure out how to invite someone to one once you start a 1 on 1. You can all get together around a public microphone in Second Life and it will add you to a conference, but that's a hassle. Documentation is almost nil. What good is it to me when I am not able to hear chat after 5 minutes and trying to restart the client it tells me the server is non-responsive? So basically it sucks!!
After half an hour of messing with Vivox and nothing working, moo Money, Mark Barrett and I decided we would just use Skype, and that's what happened.. The complaints about Vivox spread through our social network and soon our conversation was 6 strong hosting Talila Liu, Eric Rice and Oz Spade as well. Then it was 10 and finally topping out at 17 people connected through SkypeCast, including terrorist linkers and "known griefers".
Eric Rice said, "It's like Second Life in my ears."
We don't need no fancy schmancy bullhookie from Vivox..Back to Skype everyone! It may not be integrated into Second Life, but at least it works.
Now, if it was a part of the client that would be a different story, nobody would expect it to work…
