User Roles and Permissions
Foretell Reality has three main user roles and permissions. Each role provides a different tablet permission and visibility setting.
Moderator: This role has the highest permission in VR and serves as the support group leader.
Participant: These users are guests in the VR environment.
Observer: This role remains neither heard nor seen in the VR environment. Observers cannot interact with virtual objects and have recording permissions when used on desktop.
The user roles are differentiated by the permissions they have in VR, which are accessible from their personal tablet. Each VR user possesses a personal menu tablet that is only visible to them. To open or close the menu, click the flat Menu button on the left controller.
Refer below to see the tablet permissions accessible to each role.
Moderators
Mute themself and/or mute all students
Enable seat switching
Play 2D and 360 degree media
Change virtual environments
Adjust their own and other avatars’ heights
Enable room-wide activates
Change audio settings
Ban users
Change accessibility settings
Participants
Mute themself
Return to the lobby
Adjust their own avatar’s position in the virtual environment
Change accessibility settings
Observers
Observers are neither heard or seen in the VR environment.
Spectator mode - enables a Desktop user to record footage from within the experience as a 2D video. Screenshots can also be taken during the recording.
About Spectator Mode: recordings and screenshots are saved in a folder on your Desktop named Foretell Reality Videos.
Note: that if you’ve changed environments during the recording, each environment recording will be in its own saved file
There are two recording options in Spectator Mode:
Record Screen Mode - offering the ability to take a video from the Point of View of the Observer making the recording. Remember that Observers can also “walk” around the room to record from different angles.
Camera Studio Mode - a mode that cycles through cinematic angles and shifts focus to whoever is talking
While in Studio Mode you also can change to manual control and make your own shot selections
Resolution selection - you may select resolutions from 360p to 1080p. Higher resolutions might affect app performance, and lower ones will render less clear videos. We recommend starting at the default 1080p, and lowering it if there are any visual stutters during recording or playback. The performance of your computer will be a key factor in determining which resolution is best for you.
Screen Shots - while recording, press the ‘P’ key on the desktop keyboard to take a screenshot, which will be saved to the same location as the recordings.
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