Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Adding Gestures - time for cheat sheets?

We had an extra meetup in Marlboro Island. In this meetup we did not have an actual agenda. Surprisingly we were able to learn a great deal.

Many of us were a bit frustrated about not being able to use gestures and animations. We were able to check our inventory and the learned how to add the gestures by activating them and saving them.

There were choices that had to be made about how and where to load the animations or gestures. We also had to rename them otherwise you would find yourself with a lot of items titled new gestures.

After loading a bunch it got pretty confusing as you could not tell which one was which. Out tour guide went over the steps but it had been a while since learning them so it required a bit of recollection.
 In this image you can see how the visitors were gifted a box of gestures oddly they came as something to wear. For me I had access to about 20 gestures but it required them to be activated.

Once the were activated you could click on them to play them or type a forward slash /name of gesture hit enter to activate.


After a little practice we were able to float in a yoga pose, do a number of dance steps, back flips, hand gesture like waving, fist bumps, one two punches and more.
Here you can see a box of animations. Some of us did not res. I was able to most avatars. The sound from some were louder than others. When first arriving it took a while for the campfire to res which seems now to be typical.

As for learning there was good social cognitive experience. I think I would need to return again after a good night rest to use retrieval to own the patterns practiced or learned is this meeting. As there was a lot going on with many trying to learn techniques this may be a good opportunity to leave artifacts that we can return to perhaps we can create a virtual cheat sheet for visitors classmates or future travelers to build on?

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