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| + | Your presence in Sine Space is represented by your avatar, which is a animated humanoid graphic that appears as the user chooses to be seen. In figure 2. above, a user is choosing a guest avatar via the webGL client running in a firefox browser window. | ||
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| + | ! [[File:GuestLoginAvatarChooseName.png]] | ||
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| + | ! ''Fig. 3:Guest Login: Choose your Avatar Name'' | ||
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| + | Of course you will want a name as well as an appearance, so choose well - but the guest's name choice will not persist beyond logout. | ||
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| + | ! [[File:WebGLSineSpaceRegion.png]] | ||
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| + | ! ''Fig. 4:Sine Space: The landing region'' | ||
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| + | Wait what? That doesn't look very good... well, it's because we've gone to a space that has not been optimized for WebGL. | ||
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==The Desktop Client== | ==The Desktop Client== | ||
Space regions can be accessed and used in a variety of ways, and in the role of a guest, a content creator, or resident. The range of options is truly flexible.
Access Space in a web browser
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| Fig. 1:The webGL login screen in a firefox window |
Sine Space can be accessed from a variety of platforms, with more to be added as the platform continues to be developed. This is made a realistic possiblitlty due to the Unity Game Engine, which can be deployed on a veritable host of devices, not the least of which are WebGL, the PC, Mac, and Linux desktops, Android, most Grade-AAA gaming consoles, and pontentially dozens of smart media devices.
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| Fig. 2:Guest Login: Choose your Avatar |
Your presence in Sine Space is represented by your avatar, which is a animated humanoid graphic that appears as the user chooses to be seen. In figure 2. above, a user is choosing a guest avatar via the webGL client running in a firefox browser window.
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| Fig. 3:Guest Login: Choose your Avatar Name |
Of course you will want a name as well as an appearance, so choose well - but the guest's name choice will not persist beyond logout.
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| Fig. 4:Sine Space: The landing region |
Wait what? That doesn't look very good... well, it's because we've gone to a space that has not been optimized for WebGL.
Using the desktop client to access Space
You may access Space under a variety of circumstances, and we recognize that not everyone will want to go through a signup process just to have a look around and see what all the fuss is about. So, there are a couple of different ways you can access space:
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