I just met up briefly with Ade Snook at the Second Life Hacienda, resulting from him tweeting that he was alone on the dancefloor - ahhh. The Hacienda was a Manchester club that I never went to in RL (partly because of being a southerner!) but Ade said that it was a reasonably faithful replica of the original.While we were there we tried out the SL voice feature. Cool. It took a while to get the settings right (e.g. correctly setting the relative volumes for audio, video and voice) but once done it seemed to work very well.
The way that the sound changes as you move relative to other speakers is particularly nice.
I suggested to Ade afterwards that we should organise a voice trial for any UK Educators that are interested - or anyone else for that matter. I was originally thinking about testing voice on Eduserv Island, but the Hacienda would be more fun. How about 4.00pm (UK time) on Thursday 9th August?
