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« on: April 20, 2007, 10:41:32 AM »

Unyte Application Sharing
Last night we used Skype's Extra Unyte: https://extras.skype.com/622/view

The Good
This little add on lets you share your desktop and/or specific application with people in your conference call. We shared it with 3 people, the documentation says upto nine!  People viewing have their web browser popup and there and the image is displayed.

In any event we used for 40 minutes and the response time was quite good.  We shared paint brush drew a quick map and all flowed nicely.  In hind site with a little prep time, a better map could be drawn or a better drawing app could be used.  For this test though it worked really well.  Furthermore you can let others drive the shared application but it was twitchy, you would have to go really slow.

The Bad
Only works with windows at this time.

Installation
Select Tools, Do More, Unyte and install it.

The Interesting
I have to say the methodology is very similar to RollDamage's sscreen share tool but it is cleaner and faster. :-)  That project is likely going to be cancelled. :-(

I'd like to hear what others have to say about this tool too, Anyone else tried it?


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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2007, 07:12:46 PM »

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I tried out Skype Unyte for the 3rd time last week.  I shared a view of a power point presentation with 2 remote players for 90 ,imutes.  I had slides with maps, grids, images as markers for the players, monsters etc.  It worked quite well.  When doing a lot of changes on Powerpoint the Skype voice would get choppy.  I was aslo under prepared and had to skectch a map on the fly.  I'm a powerpoint novice so that bit was slow.  Unyte worked very well and the other two players understood the map with ease.  It was almost like being there!

You can't beat the price! (Free) and you can share with uptp 4 people.  If youare willing to pay $ you can share with upto 8 people.  Really an excellent and free Add-on.
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2007, 10:35:12 AM »

It appears that the ability to share with 4 people is a trial ability, they watn $100/year for the ability now.  No thanks,  it does not work well enough for a recurring fee.  I might have paid a 1 time fee of $35.
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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2007, 02:20:25 PM »

Well... Back to the old drawing board! (Pun intended)

It is still free to share with one person, so if one person is remote (player or GM) it is still a viable option.  Until, of course, they take any free-ness away or something better comes up.
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