In Class activity 1

Overview 

In this activity, you will create avatars for both RecRoom and Spatial that best match yourself in your own perspective. Additionally, you will play some bowling in the RecRoom on any sport with movement; you will also write a note and browse any website in a shared room with your breakout group members in Spatial.

Setup - Before class

The first portion of the activity is setting up your avatar in RecRoom and Spatial. The tutorial to setup your account and avatar in Spatial is here. Please complete all the steps.  Here is the RecRoom tutorial to setup your avatar. If you have time, you can customize your avatar now or finish it in class. 

In Class Activity

1. Start RecRoom. If you haven’t finished customizing your avatar, you can finish that now. The goal while customizing your avatar is to make it look like you.

 2. Click the Menu on your controller and then choose Play in the top left corner. 

 3. Choose RecRoomOriginalsPlay and choose bowling or any other game where you’ll have to move your hands. 

  4. Bowl for a few minutes (~5 mins) while observing your hand movements and other avatar’s hand movements.

  5. Fill this survey out for RecRoom.

  6. Next, we’re moving on to Spatial. Start the Spatial app in your headset.

  7. Assign one person in the breakout room to be the host.

  8. For host:

1. 1. Create your own space by clicking the add button. 

   2. Once you’ve joined your room, add people by clicking the below symbol on the top right corner of the “sharing screen”. You can email the link to yourself and forward it to your participants or invite the user by email

  9. For participants: 

1. 1. Click on the link in either on your computer and pair to your headset or join through the Oculus Browser. To pair your headset to Spatial on your computer, follow the red boxes in the below images. 

Enter this code after clicking the below button in your computer browser

You can reference this Spatial article for more help.

The goal for the next two steps is to observe the avatar’s movement, both yours and your teammates’.

  10. Once all the members of the breakout room are in the same room, each of you should create a note by clicking on the menu and tapping the Note Symbol

  11. In this Note, draw/write anything you want (nothing too long).

  12. Next click the blue plus icon and choose Browser.

  13. Go to any url by typing in the browser bar and scroll through it. 

  14. Fill this survey out for Spatial.

Thank you!!