Voxli, a new Y Combinator startup that has received $15,000 thus far, has endeavored to fix the communication problem between large groups of online gamers, by the means of launching an open beta for its browser-based voice-chatting system for gamers.
While Google Talk and Skype are popular online communication tools; and Mumble, Ventrilo, and TeamSpeak offer voice chat customers for hardcore gamers - and even Vivox integrating its voice-chat system into games - the Voxli offering is specifically for gamers, allowing nearly 200 gamers to join in to one chat!
The co-founder of the Mountain View, California-based Voxli, Andrew Ow, said the company is attempting to make the clients uncomplicated to use and simple to put together for both casual games as well as brief time-span games that attract a much wider group of gamers as compared to the hardcore gamers.
The one-year-old company with two staff members, Voxli is actually exploring the vast potential in the sphere of game-time communication among gamers, who need to communicate in groups, and get back for regularly-scheduled game sessions.
Using the Voxli service - free during the beta period months - gamers can visit a static continual URL to integrate into a group chat session, and initiate the 'push-to-talk' feature using a browser plug-in. Currently available on Internet Explorer and Firefox, the Voxli support for more browsers is round the corner!












