George, Thanks for sharing all that - I was wondering too. Nola, San Diego 08:03 PM 08/03/2001 +0000, George Lunt said something like: >On 3 Aug 2001 Babette C Bloch <bvcb@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >+++++ >What's this Juno chat thing they are now touting? It requires special >software I note...has anyone tried it? I didn't see anything that really >made it all that desirable to me. >+++++ > >Hi Babette, and All, > >I think you're probably referring to the 3D-Chat Juno added some months >back, but has been hyping lately. Actually, it's somebody else's chat, >but we get membership because we're Juno-ites. > >I tried it awhile back and to be fair, didn't spend much time with >it. You are assigned a "basic" 3D avatar "body" which you can and modify >as you see fit. Then you're placed in a huge room, not unlike a major >airport with "spokes" leading out to the various gates only with a "space >port" theme, and start wandering around with all the other avatars. > >It took awhile to get the darn thing going where I wanted it to and never >did find any specific "subject" areas to hang out in, although I'm sure >there must be. Mostly though it seemed like I spent my time wandering and >occasionally spoke when I happened to bump into someone. > >Anyway, I'm not a real big chat fan, so that might have tainted my >experience, but after two or three forays into Juno's 3D-Chat, I pretty >much closed the hatch on that one. > >George Lunt ..... so. cal. To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org ~*~