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I am a long-time user of Dolby Axon. Considering our new sponsorship, I'd like to take the opportunity to reflect on my personal experiences with an amazing service with which many of our members may not be familiar.
Dolby Axon is a free-client and server-less VOIP system that requires no payment on the part of individuals or groups that use it to communicate. Rather than dedicated servers with IP addresses, Axon allows individual users to create temporary and even Permanent Chats dynamically with people on their Friends List. If a group of friends or MMO guild wish to use Axon for their every-day comms system, one individual can set up a single Permanent Chat and name it as they wish. Every other user that wishes to have on-going access to that Permanent Chat can then make it Permanent in their own client and connect to it every time they start up Axon. Every registered user of Axon can maintain up to a maximum of five Permanent Chats on their client at any given time.
Once inside the client and connected to the Chat you have selected, you experience the kind of sound quality you would expect with the name Dolby.
Every user has a circular avatar representing them that is placed in the square grid of the Room for that Chat. Sound is fully directional, so the GUI allows for your voice to be adjusted on a 360 degree axis around your avatar. Sections of the Room can also be adjusted by Chat owners (or those they Promote) to allow for private conversations on the fly or to group together squads of people for precise coordination. Existing members of the chat can have their avatars dragged seamlessly from one section of the Room to the other. There is also a text chat at the bottom of the client which users can utilize.
I've greatly enjoyed the time I've spent in Axon and find it to be a very user-friendly yet quality-focused product. Running off of a Friend's List rather than needing to remember server addresses, IPs, ports, and passwords makes it a very simple process to get new friends downloaded, set up, and chatting.
~ Dangle
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