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You will be able to customise your avatar (though the options are limited at present), and once in the virtual world you will be able to speak to your colleagues. \u00a0You can even take selfies (though I need to figure out how to do that!-hence the stock photos today).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n If you use CEL’s Rift then of course you will be able to experience the virtual environments in a more immersive way (though it worked fine on my Mac).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you have already set up a Slack account (another downloadable app) then it is easy to assembly your team for a quick virtual meeting (perfect for teams who work across campuses).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meet your team in virtual reality. Easily start VR Calls for your team inside Slack<\/p>\n To start a VR Call, just type Each member will need VR hardware (Rift, Vive, or Gear VR) and AltspaceVR installed to enter VR. You can join in 2D mode from Mac or PC without VR hardware.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For help, visit help.altvr.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALtSpaceVR is a free app that can be down loaded onto your PC or Mac. \u00a0Altspacevr have just teamed up with Microsoft and are continuing to develop the features of this app. Once in the Altspace app you can invite colleagues from BU or around the world to join you for a virtual meeting…. Read more » about Using AltspaceVR for Virtual Team Meetings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2066,"featured_media":6969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,91,401,163,703,26,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-cel-staff","category-cpd","category-digital-skills","category-postgraduate-student","category-tel","category-virtual-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\nAltspaceVR + Slack<\/h2>\n
\/vrcall<\/code> and AltspaceVR will generate a link you can click to enter VR.
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