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Archive for March 30th, 2007

Can You Hear Me Now?

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 30, 2007 03:29pm

This cliche phrase is something you may see in many chat windows. Up until now, voice communication in Second Life was limited to use of technologies that exisit outside of SL - TeamSpeak, Skype, Ventrilo, etc. But as rumors and announcements have rolled out this year, stand back as voice communication is coming as an integrated feature within Second Life. A few weeks ago we were able to invite a group of 100+ avatars (spread over a few time sessions) onto ... more » »

EDUCAUSE Immersive Learning Environments Day 2

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 30, 2007 01:47pm

It's taken some time and travel to regroup after the high level energy of the EDUCAUSE Immersive Learning Environments Focus session in Raleigh. As proven many times before it was great to meet F2F a number of people I've only known as avatars. Sarah Robbins and Intellagirl Tully, one and the same? The experimental effort to stream audio into SL form this event was moderately successful, judging from chat feedback from some of the avatars that showed up on NMC Campus to ... more » »