Virtual Education Journal
18
Roxie with new friends on “Playa.” Roxie is avatar with back to camera. had a great conversation with several avatars who were well
Three things in High Fidelity were quite different. One is that
versed in how to use High Fidelity. They gave me several tips
there is no typing chat or way (that we could find) to friend peo-
that I am sharing with you in this article.
ple. But, that being said, it is easy to use voice to talk. Second, not all tools are loaded when you start. For example, to see other
The avatars we met in High Fidelity were very friendly. Many of
users online, you need to make sure that the “users.js” is loaded
them, like us, were there for the first time or because they had
in “Running Scripts.” “Running Scripts” can be found under edit.
heard that High Fidelity had gone Beta and wanted to see what
Third, to teleport to other places, hit “enter” (at least on a mac)
was different.
and then type the name of the place you would like to visit.