Metaverse is an augmented reality platform that allows users to create interactive experiences that merge the digital world with the physical world to get started you can access Metaverse in your browser at go meta dot IO here it will first prompt you to set up your account and once you have logged in you can hit the get started button to get to your dashboard once you have created
meta vs. There will be your dashboard of all the ones you have created or have copies of you highly recommend. Though, to get started that you will have to begin with searching for some meta verses that are already created. Going to the most popular category will give you some good choices to participate in and look at or if you’d like you can search by keyword most educated educators are using this currently for review reflection or even some breakout Edu so those may be great words to search when you find one that you think looks promising or interesting you can click on it and then you can access it from here to play the meta verse and participate in it you will need to go on your device and download the meta verse app at the top of the app you will have a prompt to scan a code from here once you scan your code a play button will pop up on your screen and you will follow the prompts in the meta verse if you like it you can favourite it and save it to your account so you can find it later if you want to share this with others so that they can play it you can click the share button to get a link or QR code another great tip is if you really like the structure or the content of this meta verse you can actually choose to clone it.
Cloning in Metaverse will give you a copy that you can now edit this will live in your experiences so now this is my version of review time and if You click edit you can see the back end sequence that the original creator set up for their review time Metaverse you think this is a great way just to kind of dabble if you have never seen one because it will give your ideas about how you link things how you can set up your sequence a variety of the different types of scenes and if you like it you can actually customize it by clicking in the boxes and changing the messages or content or even customizing the images so it’s a great way to take what someone else has and kind of personalize it for yourself I’m going to back out of this and I’m actually going to start from scratch and create a new experience when you create a new experience or access any experience it is organized in the form of a storyboard you can see my current storyboard is pretty blank but each time they will start off with scene 1 which gives you options for dialogue and images each scene contains different prompts of what you can do and how you can interact with your participants this particular scene you can just giving them dialogue so to add that you can simply type in the box.
you want to add a character you can click on the bubble you can search from a very extensive library that Metaverse already has and so you can see how you can search by keyword up here or if you like you can actually add a character and upload any image you have on your computer this is a great way to personalize it so if you wanted to use photos of yourself or your students or even bitmoji x’ it’s a great way to kind of incorporate that however you don’t have to you can literally just search keywords based off of your topic and click use another great opportunity is to add sounds same concept you have a great library to choose from or enter the add sound option you can actually record your own voice if you would like to add an action something for this particular scene to do you can click on the add an action option if this is just the way You like it and it’s all finished
then what YOU need to do is come over here to the right and look at my settings YOU can customize a few things but the main thing that You want you to focus on is your transitions because this is done in a storyboard it’s all about sequencing and where you’re going to transition next currently once you look at this slide mine is over it ends your experience you see you have some options you can do nothing where it just stays here transition to a scene a block you can end it or suspend it I’m going to choose a scene and now what I’ll have to do is choose new scene because You have no other ones already created once you get here you have a Bank of pre coded scenes to choose from most of them kind of tell you a little bit about what they do so you can get your user to input some text for you can request an item you can also give them items which is a great way to game add clues for breakouts websites cameras will let you access your to take a photo of our video you can embed YouTube also 360 photos and videos which is a great experience especially on an AR app like this walls polls and more another great feature for educators is the pre-programmed questions polls and walls there.
if you click on ask a multiple-choice question you can see it sets up my sequence for what where YOU type my question YOU answer options and then it already has it linked for where it goes if it’s right or wrong YOU do just need to make sure that my scenes are connected and so what you need to do is make sure that it doesn’t make to go to seem – once you leave here to add in your content you simply click in the boxes backspace out the information that’s there and add in your information the same thing for your answer choices correct answer takes this out add in your actual correct answer you can also click add action to add more options you can also take these guys right here right click and you can delete them remove them down if you need less, of course, feel free to customize your image for each scene you can also change the prompt of what they get don’t forget to look at your actions as well it currently has tried again or give up if you want to change this you could make it to get a hint and YOU could sequence this block to get ahead once you have set up your experience the way you like it you can simply hit back and you will now get to your QR code so that you can share with others to play YOU hope this has given you a little insight on how to get started with Metaverse