Telecommunications company Vivox provides voice over IP technology to video games. They are currently boasting that, thanks to them, you can make a call from within Second Life to any real-life telephone number. Wow! That's incredibly, amazingly...wait what now? You can make a plain old regular VoIP call, only it appears to be coming from an anthropomorphic raccoon or whatever your avatar is. And only to you, the person making the call. It's not like "ANTHROPOMORPHIC RACCOON" shows up on caller ID, or that your voice is translated into chittering. Wow. That's really pointless. Even for Second Life.

Connecting Real Voices Through Virtual Worlds [Clickable Culture]

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