Overte is all about the people you meet and the experiences you have with them. Overte enables people connected by interest, community, and friendship to come together from anywhere in the world.
In Overte, you can establish a connection with someone else by shaking hands with them. With your hand controllers, place your hands near each other and hold the grip button. Desktop users can press and hold X on their keyboard.
Once you make a connection with someone, they will appear under Connections in the The People app. You will also appear on their list of connections. You will be able to see where they are in the metaverse, and you can travel to them at any time.
To mark a connection as a friend, check the box next to their name in the People app. You can make yourself available to only your friends using the People app.
The People app provides a set of tools that help users manage their interactions with people in the metaverse. It gives you a list of the people nearby (in the same domain as you), and gives you easy access to all of your connections. From the People app, you can:
Feature
설명
Profile Picture
This is where your profile picture will be visible. Click on the image to view your profile.
You can change this image on our website.
Display Name
You can change your display name at any time. By default, it will be 'anonymous'.
In the image above, the display name is 'HiFi Docs'.
Set Availability
This feature allows you to appear online to select groups of users:
Everyone, Friends and Connections, Friends Only, or Appear Offline. The users you appear online
to will also be able to teleport to your location.
Master Volume
Set the volume of your audio in Overte.
Nearby
This is the list of users who are nearby in the same domain as you.
In View
You can check this box to view only the users in front of you in a domain.
This is useful when a domain has a lot of users.
Refresh Button
Click this button to refresh the list of users currently in the domain.
Connections
This is the list of users who are your friends and connections. You can also teleport to their
location from this list.
Loud
Click this icon next to the user you want to mute. The user will be muted only for you, not for
other users in the domain. The icon also displays how loudly a user is speaking.
Names
This is the list of users available in the domain. You will only see their display names.
Ignore
If you check this box next to a user, you and the user will not be able to see or hear each other.
As an administrator in a domain, you will have privileges to maintain a domain. The People app will have an additional column that allows an admin to silence and ban users in the same domain.
Feature
설명
Silence
You can click the icon to mute a user. This user will be muted for everyone in the domain.
Ban
You can click here to ban a user from the current domain. The user will not be able to enter
the domain using the same account. The banned user will still have access to other Overte
domains.
You can enable a privacy shield that protects your personal space in the metaverse. When it is enabled, other people will disappear if they get too close to you. Your privacy shield is disabled by default. To enable it, pull up your tablet or HUD and click Shield. In Desktop mode, you can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + N.
There is also a Shield icon on the top-left corner of your Interface window, next to the audio icon, that can be used to toggle your privacy shield.
One of the great things about virtual reality is that you can attend events. Overte regularly hosts events such as workshops, lectures on VR, and town hall meetings to meet our team. You can view all upcoming events on the Overte website. Events are a great place to meet others and share experiences with others around the world.
To attend an event, simply go to the hosted domain at the time of the event.
There are many ways you can express yourself in Overte, such as animating the mouth of your avatar or using gestures in the Emote app.
By default, all avatars will use a standard set of animations, such as your eyes blinking or your mouth opening and closing as you talk. When you are using a VR controller, your avatar will automatically mimic your hand gestures and movements.
The Emote app is a way for desktop users to express themselves without using VR controllers. With this app, you can display feelings by: crying, acting surprised, dancing, cheering, waving, falling, pointing, clapping, sitting, or showing love.
Overte does have a default text chat option that works well desktop users. Currently support for text chat in VR is not up to standard. Fortunately, our extensible open-source scripting and UI gives you the ability to create the features you want, including improving the text chat. There are some great scripts for chat that have already been built by community members, and a few are described below.
The script will start running and display a text chat window pop-up. You can use this window to chat with other users in the same domain who are running the same script. If text chat is important to you, you can add this to your default scripts so it's always there.
Socialize with Others
Overte is all about the people you meet and the experiences you have with them. Overte enables people connected by interest, community, and friendship to come together from anywhere in the world.
Make Connections and Friends
In Overte, you can establish a connection with someone else by shaking hands with them. With your hand controllers, place your hands near each other and hold the grip button. Desktop users can press and hold
Xon their keyboard.Once you make a connection with someone, they will appear under Connections in the The People app. You will also appear on their list of connections. You will be able to see where they are in the metaverse, and you can travel to them at any time.
To mark a connection as a friend, check the box next to their name in the People app. You can make yourself available to only your friends using the People app.
The People App
The People app provides a set of tools that help users manage their interactions with people in the metaverse. It gives you a list of the people nearby (in the same domain as you), and gives you easy access to all of your connections. From the People app, you can:
Feature
설명
Profile Picture
This is where your profile picture will be visible. Click on the image to view your profile. You can change this image on our website.
Display Name
You can change your display name at any time. By default, it will be 'anonymous'. In the image above, the display name is 'HiFi Docs'.
Set Availability
This feature allows you to appear online to select groups of users: Everyone, Friends and Connections, Friends Only, or Appear Offline. The users you appear online to will also be able to teleport to your location.
Master Volume
Set the volume of your audio in Overte.
Nearby
This is the list of users who are nearby in the same domain as you.
In View
You can check this box to view only the users in front of you in a domain. This is useful when a domain has a lot of users.
Refresh Button
Click this button to refresh the list of users currently in the domain.
Connections
This is the list of users who are your friends and connections. You can also teleport to their location from this list.
Loud
Click this icon next to the user you want to mute. The user will be muted only for you, not for other users in the domain. The icon also displays how loudly a user is speaking.
Names
This is the list of users available in the domain. You will only see their display names.
Ignore
If you check this box next to a user, you and the user will not be able to see or hear each other.
Use the People App as an Admin
As an administrator in a domain, you will have privileges to maintain a domain. The People app will have an additional column that allows an admin to silence and ban users in the same domain.
Feature
설명
Silence
You can click the icon to mute a user. This user will be muted for everyone in the domain.
Ban
You can click here to ban a user from the current domain. The user will not be able to enter the domain using the same account. The banned user will still have access to other Overte domains.
Your Privacy Shield
You can enable a privacy shield that protects your personal space in the metaverse. When it is enabled, other people will disappear if they get too close to you. Your privacy shield is disabled by default. To enable it, pull up your tablet or HUD and click Shield. In Desktop mode, you can also use the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+N.There is also a Shield icon on the top-left corner of your Interface window, next to the audio icon, that can be used to toggle your privacy shield.
Attend Live Events
One of the great things about virtual reality is that you can attend events. Overte regularly hosts events such as workshops, lectures on VR, and town hall meetings to meet our team. You can view all upcoming events on the Overte website. Events are a great place to meet others and share experiences with others around the world.
To attend an event, simply go to the hosted domain at the time of the event.
Express Yourself
There are many ways you can express yourself in Overte, such as animating the mouth of your avatar or using gestures in the Emote app.
By default, all avatars will use a standard set of animations, such as your eyes blinking or your mouth opening and closing as you talk. When you are using a VR controller, your avatar will automatically mimic your hand gestures and movements.
The Emote App
The Emote app is a way for desktop users to express themselves without using VR controllers. With this app, you can display feelings by: crying, acting surprised, dancing, cheering, waving, falling, pointing, clapping, sitting, or showing love.
Chat with Users
Overte does have a default text chat option that works well desktop users. Currently support for text chat in VR is not up to standard. Fortunately, our extensible open-source scripting and UI gives you the ability to create the features you want, including improving the text chat. There are some great scripts for chat that have already been built by community members, and a few are described below.
Alternative Local Chat
This clean, reliable, and well-written chat script was created by alpha user ctrlaltdavid.
To run the script:
In Interface, go to Edit > Open and Run Script from URL.
Paste this URL.
The script will start running and display a text chat window pop-up. You can use this window to chat with other users in the same domain who are running the same script. If text chat is important to you, you can add this to your default scripts so it's always there.