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[tompoe]

Hello:  I'm intrigued by the idea of participating in a virtual world environment.  I remember several years ago, a virtual world application called, Second Life.  I understood that participating required spending money I did not have.  I gather from the website, that I could set up a virtual world on my desktop using opencobalt, and then offer it to the world through a VPN, or even VCN.  Is that true?

[Ho-Sheng Hsiao]

Hey there,

I heard about OC too and am eager to try it.

I don't know about VNC. I think it's more of you connect to OpenCobalt directly. It looks like of you have VNC set up you can operate the desktop from within the virtual world.

Would you like to see if we can get multiple people in an island? I have a copy on my laptop but none of my friends are interested in trying it out.

-Hosh

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 17:09 tompoe <tom...@meltel.net> wrote:

Hello:  I'm intrigued by the idea of participating in a virtual world environment.  I remember several years ago, a virtual world application called, Second Life.  I understood that participating required spending money I did not have.  I gather from the website, that I could set up a virtual world on my desktop using opencobalt, and then offer it to the world through a VPN, or even VCN.  Is that true?

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[Tom]

Hello, Hosh:  Sounds like a good idea.  Let's move off the group, and we'll email directly.  I'm running Linux Mint17 on a desktop.  What do I do, first?
Tom Poe, Eden Valley, MN, USA

On 03/28/2015 08:52 PM, Ho-Sheng Hsiao wrote:

Hey there,

I heard about OC too and am eager to try it.

I don't know about VNC. I think it's more of you connect to OpenCobalt directly. It looks like of you have VNC set up you can operate the desktop from within the virtual world.

Would you like to see if we can get multiple people in an island? I have a copy on my laptop but none of my friends are interested in trying it out.

-Hosh

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[Carlos Crosetti]

Hosh, you do not need VNC to start OC in your box, please make youre you have installed Open AL before reloading OC.

Regards, Carlos

Hey there,

I heard about OC too and am eager to try it. 

I don't know about VNC. I think it's more of you connect to OpenCobalt directly. It looks like of you have VNC set up you can operate the desktop from within the virtual world. 

Would you like to see if we can get multiple people in an island? I have a copy on my laptop but none of my friends are interested in trying it out. 

-Hosh

[Ho-Sheng Hsiao]

Thanks. I've been able to successfully open OC before. Did not know that about OpenAL, will have to find the libs for OSX.

How do you actually connect with other people?

-Hosh

[Carlos Crosetti]

Nice to hear you was able to launch OC.

I am used to run OC in Windows so I am familiar with OpenAL only in this platform.

There is a way to turn OpenAL off from a configuration file switch.

For connectiong to other OC instance, please review this guide

http://www.opencobalt.org/documentation/user-guide/teleporting-and-space-linking

Here is another work that shows a teleport between two images that you can try; http://simulationandlearning.blogspot.com.ar/

Besides I am experimented in doing teleport I recommend to to ttry with two distinct machines in the sme LAN IP addresing scope, for instance onebox at 192.168.1.15 and the other at 192.168.1.16

Regards, Carlos

[Ho-Sheng Hsiao]

Thanks for the tips!

[John Dougan]

Mac OS X should come shipped with a working OpenAL. Linux often does, but it may need to be installed with the distro's package manager. Windows will probably need it to be installed.

Cheers,

  -- John

John Dougan
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