On 7 May 2010 13:45, Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> 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
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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)