Hey, anyone out there in a distributed team using Second Life for virtual meetings? At Terracotta, we are somewhat distributed and sometimes it is difficult to have good meetings just over the phone. I’m wondering if SL would be a better experience, especially as we continue to expand geographically.

I’m especially interested in knowing whether the audio would be good enough to have a half dozen people meeting and talking. Are there problems with having powerful enough graphics cards? What about firewall issues and opening ports?

Some links I came up with while Googling:

• Conference Island – a company that provides virtual meeting spaces in Second Life
• Second Life Conferencing – another SL conferencing company
• Article on virtual meetings
• Research on virtual meeting rooms