# User Roles and Permissions

Foretell Reality has three main user roles and permissions. Each role provides a different tablet permission and visibility setting.

* Leader: This role has the highest permissions and serves as the meeting leader. They can change locations, play media, enable and disable interactive activities, and more.
* Participant: These users are visible with an avatar and are able to speak, but will not have access to media, movement, or activities unless given permission by a Leader.
* Observer: This role will be able to attend meetings but will not be visible or audible.  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 their quick menu. To open or close the menu, click the flat Menu button on the left controller. 

Refer below to see the quick menu permissions accessible to each role.

## Leaders

* Mute themself and/or mute all participants
* Customize their own name and avatar
* Enable seat switching for themselves or everyone in the room
* Play 2D and 360 degree media
* Change virtual environments
* Adjust their own and other participants’ height
* Enable room-wide activities such as painting or an interactive ball
* Change audio settings
* Ban users
* Change accessibility settings
* Note - the button with 3 connected people enables the feature for everyone in the room

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## Participants

* Mute themself
* Return to the lobby
* Customize their own name and avatar
* Recenter their avatar's position
* Change accessibility settings

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## 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. &#x20;
* Recordings and screenshots are saved in a folder on your Desktop named Foretell Reality Videos. &#x20;

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**About Spectator Mode**

There are two recording options in Spectator Mode:

1. 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.
2. 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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