Why ChatRoulette Is All the Rage
April 9, 2010
If your recent search for roulette information turned up some interesting and seemingly unrelated results, that’s likely due to the increasing popularity of a new social networking service called ChatRoulette. While ChatRoulette was named such in honor of Russian roulette vs the actual casino game, it’s still had an unexpected impact on the world of online roulette.
The gist of ChatRoulette is that random people are connected via webcam chat. It’s a simple enough concept, but one that up to this point online casinos had failed to utilize. Sure, for several years online players had the option to rant, chant or chatter in the lobby or on chat boxes posted on multi-player game screens, but the only sights and sounds players could access at an online roulette table were the ones coming from the game itself.
Online casinos recognized the appeal of making the virtual world more real by adding live dealers several years ago, but the concept has been very sparingly applied. Only now is the live dealer feature becoming more widespread. At sites like Casino Las Vegas players are not hosted by animated or pre-recorded dealers, but by a real, live hostess that not only guides them through the game but will answer questions and banter amiably with their players (assuming they can behave and stick to approved roulette chat topics). The same is true of other popular games like blackjack and baccarat.
It’s only a matter of time until poker rooms integrate the technology and until online casinos allow players to not only communicate face-to-face with casino employees but with each other too.
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