ECMM 802 Tour

A tour in SL was held with Rick Schwier's ECMM 802 graduate class on Monday, March 31. We incorporated a few of the things we learned from the EC&I 831 tour.

For this tour we used a different tour HUD supplied to us from Eloise Pasteur. The setup for this tour HUD was much easier. To add locations to the tour you simply wear the "Tour Leader HUD" (shown below), go to the locations and click on the "Add" button to include the location.














Jeff Kurka wearing the Tour Leader HUD (photo taken March 31/08).

A very useful feature about Eloise's tour HUD is that it comes with a "Tour HUD Giver" (shown below) that allows participants to click on to receive the tour HUD. The HUD giver is designed to give out other objects along with the tour HUD if required. This is very useful if you need to provide participants with notecards or objects for the tour.













Green pyramid Tour Hud Giver (photo taken March 31/08).

The "Tour HUD" (shown below) that the participants receive from the "Tour HUD Giver" looks different than the "Tour Leader HUD".














Wearing Tour HUD (photo taken March 31/08).

Once the leader and participants are both wearing their HUDs, to teleport to the first location the leader clicks on the "TP" button. Each of the participants wearing the tour HUD receive a map of the next location and a teleport button. When the participant clicks on the teleport button they teleport to the next location in the tour.

Eloise's tour HUD worked very well on all the computer systems the participants were using. It moved everyone along nicely as a group to each location. If a participant got lost they either clicked the rope on their HUD to receive the last location or the "i" to IM the group leader their location. The group leader could then go and retrieve the participant.

One problem that did occur is that the HUD, on one occasion, TP us to the wrong location. Not sure why but when trying it again it TP to the proper location.

A recommendation (thanks Kev Juno) that we did try for this tour was using the "buddy system". I would use it again...it worked well. Each participant simply partners with a buddy and they help each other during the tour. This way if one gets lost the other can communicate with them and TP them to the proper location.