Vivox voice services are used in Second Life already, and give high quality spatialised sound for such environments.  See http://www.vivox.com. A "Vivox Voice Gadget" is available to add voice facilities into a Google Wave. See:

• http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=133002
• http://www.wextensions.com/2010/03/31/wave-gadget-vivox-voice/#more-1023

Introductory  Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hvGFag_uM

Gadget URL
To install, please edit your wave, and add a gadget.  Give this URL:

• http://vir5ag.vivox.com/dave/google/GoogleWaveGadget.xml

VATAR Voice Event: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 09:00 - 09:30 (EDT) / 14:00 - 14:30 (BST) [Completed]

Join the OpenVCE.net team and test out Second Life Voice (VoIP) on VCE, and use the experience to:

• get used to your avatar
• check you have SL voice set up
• understand 3D spatialized voice
• understand point to point voice
• understand group voice
• understand voice gestures (activate speech gestures)
• test avatar lip sync (ctrl/alt/d for Advanced menu, then -> character -> enable lip sync)
• learn about typical issues with firewalls

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	VCE Hill Top	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/193/81/45/

More help here.

Event Postponed... Next VATAR Voice Event: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 09:00 - 09:30 (EDT) / 14:00 - 14:30 (BST)

Join the OpenVCE.net team and test out Second Life Voice (VoIP) on VCE, and use the experience to:

• get used to your avatar
• check you have SL voice set up
• understand 3D spatialized voice
• understand point to point voice
• understand group voice
• understand voice gestures (activate speech gestures)
• test avatar lip sync (ctrl/alt/d for Advanced menu, then -> character -> enable lip sync)
• learn about typical issues with firewalls

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	VCE Hill Top	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/193/81/45/

 More help here.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 09:00 - 09:30 (EDT) / 14:00 - 14:30 (BST)

Join the OpenVCE.net team and test out Second Life Voice (VoIP) on VCE, and use the experience to:

• get used to your avatar
• check you have SL voice set up
• understand 3D spatialized voice
• understand point to point voice
• understand group voice
• understand voice gestures (activate speech gestures)
• test avatar lip sync (ctrl/alt/d for Advanced menu, then -> character -> enable lip sync)
• learn about typical issues with firewalls

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	VCE Hill Top	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/193/81/45/

 More help here.