In your case streaming the data might be more efficient. If you send it as just another type of data through your game server then you can perform actions on the player object to determine where the voice is coming from and encode it properly. The big thing in games these days is 3D sound. In your scenario this theoretically could be solved by using the vectors that the players are currently on.

Look forward to more response here, though you will probably get a better response in the general programming section.

Kressilac

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Derek Licciardi

As to packaging the data transmission in your existing transport structure.. As long as your transport is of a broadcast type and not using somthing like TCP then I think it would be ok. Otherwise I would recommend sending it in its own broadcast transport layer.

Good luck. It sounds like an interesting project.

-rich

It is an interesting project indeed! It's a language learning tool I'm developing for a client. They want to be able to hook up 2 systems equipped with VR headsets. The idea being to get say, a French student linked up to an English student and get them to interact within a virtual village environment.

At the moment it's only a prototype that I'm developing. However, I have a very tight deadline! Looks like I'll be working over Christmas!!!

I suppose the truespeech should be easy enough to find. But just in case, if you have a url, i'll check it out. I'll have a search now anyway.

Any more info anyone has would still be most welcome!

Thanks.

However as well as transmitting positional data between the players I want to be able to transmit voice data to allow them to talk to one another.

I wondered if anyone has any experience with this? Will the Netmeeting SDK handle what I want to do?

I have also looked for the Netmeeting SDK, but can't find it one the Microsoft site. Can anyone help with this?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Tarique.