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Chris Cunnington

Cobalt VR Meetup follow up

I'm not one for hosting parties. It may be the bachelor apartment and nowhere for people to sit. I go out a lot. But with Cobalt I seem to be the undisputed king and still reigning champion of Spaces. I hosted and had people over to my Space hosted on MacBook Pro. I had 2-3 people over. And more wanted to come in. It's not as though I had bouncers tossing them aside for wearing sandals.

That's kind of the thing about Cobalt: you can't exactly know if you can teleport to another person's space or if you have the capability to host one. Honestly. There is no good reason that my Mac and my BellCanada connection should be something people can reach. But it is. Other people can't seem to host a Space. Sometimes people can't teleport in.

As you can see, Cobalt is a rolling process of experimentation. There's a bit of voodoo here. Take the audio. It works. I can get close to an avatar and start talking as though I'm on the phone, but then a delay will creep in, and its very annoying. Enough so, that I'd rather switch to in text chat.

By they way, I keep calling where we meet first IRC. It's not IRC, it's Skype Chat. I've been calling it IRC and confusing people. We meet on Skype Chat and then try to link spaces and have people teleport in.

All that carping aside, Cobalt is very fun. Going from one Space to another with a gang of avatars is good fun. You see people teleport into my first space, but I have a floating portal that allows us to literally flee to a sunnier world full of green hills.

Since last month Cobalt has moved from release candiate 30 to rc32. The Cobalt Google Group has gone from 48 to 87 members. The next Cobalt VR Meetup is 3 June.

Chris

The Viking-2

Re: Cobalt VR Meetup follow up

On 7 May 2010 13:45, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm not one for hosting parties. It may be the bachelor apartment and
> nowhere for people to sit. I go out a lot. But with Cobalt I seem to be the
> undisputed king and still reigning champion of Spaces. I hosted and had
> people over to my Space hosted on MacBook Pro. I had 2-3 people over. And
> more wanted to come in. It's not as though I had bouncers tossing them aside
> for wearing sandals.
> That's kind of the thing about Cobalt: you can't exactly know if you can
> teleport to another person's space or if you have the capability to host
> one. Honestly. There is no good reason that my Mac and my BellCanada
> connection should be something people can reach. But it is. Other people
> can't seem to host a Space. Sometimes people can't teleport in.
> As you can see, Cobalt is a rolling process of experimentation. There's a
> bit of voodoo here. Take the audio. It works. I can get close to an avatar
> and start talking as though I'm on the phone, but then a delay will creep
> in, and its very annoying. Enough so, that I'd rather switch to in text
> chat.
> By they way, I keep calling where we meet first IRC. It's not IRC, it's
> Skype Chat. I've been calling it IRC and confusing people. We meet on Skype
> Chat and then try to link spaces and have people teleport in.
> All that carping aside, Cobalt is very fun. Going from one Space to another
> with a gang of avatars is good fun. You see people teleport into my first
> space, but I have a floating portal that allows us to literally flee to a
> sunnier world full of green hills.
> Since last month Cobalt has moved from release candiate 30 to rc32. The
> Cobalt Google Group has gone from 48 to 87 members. The next Cobalt VR
> Meetup is 3 June.
> Chris
>
>
>
>

Yup. I got rather frustrated with teleporting, it seemed that I got
in, but that was as far as I got. I got to see the portal going to the
other "world", but couldntt do anything else after that. I'm not sure
what the hangup is, either. Did you use a completely clean rc32
without updating it?

Cheers, The Viking (Dr Smokey)

Chris Cunnington

Re: Cobalt VR Meetup follow up

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Hi Eric,

Nice to see you on Squeak-dev.

Yea, when the CVRM started, I did something to mess up my version of Cobalt, an rc32. So while using Skype chat I downloaded another one. So it was fresh. The only thing I did was to manually set the config file in a folder to the IP of my MacBook Pro. It could be that since I had a couple of people in the space already some kind of threshold had been reached. But circumstances vary. We need to rotate out to try to have other people be the hosting space.

I remember once Dauna and I teleported into another guy's space and he had amazing stuff modelled with 3D Studio MAX. He had a ship and an airplane. You could go up and down levels in the ship. It was great. Sure beats my black and white holodeck reception area. I haven't got to modelling with SketchUp yet.

So next time maybe you could try hosting a space. Or I'd like to see Dauna's water wheel space if we can figure out how to get to get there. And let's remember Teleplace (which has a free download) does this ever day, so I have every confidence that more testing will make Cobalt pretty smooth over time.

Chris