Voxli launches beta for online gaming audio chat
Online gaming is increasingly becoming a team activity. But communicating in large groups over the internet has never been easy.
Voxli is one of the companies trying to fix that. The company announced today its open beta for its brower-based voice chatting system for gamers.
Skype and Google Talk may work fine for the general population. But gamers are particular. They often meet in groups of 20 or more people, and they need group chat rooms that they can return to often for regularly scheduled game sessions. There are also voice chat clients for hardcore gamers from Ventrilo, Mumble and Teamspeak. Vivox is integrating its voice-chat system into games.
But Andrew Ow, co-founder of Voxli in Mountain View, Calif., said his company is trying to make the clients easier to use and easy to integrate for casual games, or those with short time frames that appeal to broader groups than just hardcore gamers. The company says as many as 200 gamers can participate in the same chat.
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