VirtualESC –Affinity Group

-- Treasure Hunt winners; some basic features in and uses of Second Life

-- June 6, 2011 – 2:30 – 3:30

Agenda

• Treasure Hunt winners -- $1,000 Lindens• Mechanics – Sitting / World Map / camera adjustments – Talking: via headset / via text – Saving meetings – text / machinima

• Basic applications & examples– Meetings via images– Meetings via website

• Designing . . . what is in your future?– from the elegant (28 Union) to importing images (MAT

Science Center)

Treasure Hunt Winners - $1,000 Lindens each

• Sunshine Lionheart – most interesting location • Michael301 Mancini – best hairdo • Lysa Burnstein – best outfit

Basics

To see all ESC locations: click World (at screen top) > World Map > click-and-drag around the map > double-click to be teleported to a location on the map

To adjust view & voice-zooming: hold Alt on your keyboard > bring mouse over object to view/hear > click > zoom in & out with mouse wheel

ADJUSTING SPEECH: click Me (top of screen) > Preferences > Sound & media > open Input/Output > test headset

Toggle on & off Speech at screen bottom; it is green when active; turn off when not using to avoid feedback

Text chat at screen bottom; similar to Elluminate

Saving meeting interactions

• Text chat can be saved to computer • Save action too (machinima): www.fraps.com – But it takes a good bit of space; image capturing

• Save sound: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

HAVING “CONTEXT” & COMMUNITY AT A DISTANCE IS A HUGE ADVANTAGE and, yes, it can be VERY

synchronous, but other options too

Testing the different ways to work with meetings

• Make or get a large cube / a box • Change the textures (images) in the box: – Create images in PowerPoint & bring into SL as

textures – Drag-and-drop images onto the box

• Create a website / wiki that is linked into the box

• (details on implementation are in the wiki)

Getting / sending notification

• Reading what is next to you; text chats • “Friending” others• Sending message – when online / when offline• Many ways – start with the following: – Right-click an avatar; make