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  • Welcome to Breakroom
  • GETTING STARTED
    • Helpful terms
    • UI tour
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Customizing your avatar
      • Choosing a starter avatar
      • Editing avatars in the Outfit window
      • Using the Sine Wave Shop
    • Controlling your avatar
    • Controlling your camera
    • Communicating with other users
    • Using the conference system
      • Troubleshooting audio and video issues
    • Using Breakroom for Training
    • Settings
    • Language and accessibility
    • Reporting issues
  • EXPLORING BREAKROOM
    • Region navigation tools
    • Bookmarks and teleport invites
    • Using the Explore window
    • Using the Meetings window
    • Networking with other users
      • People
      • Groups
    • Snapshots
  • BUILDING NEW WORLDS
    • Breakroom Dashboard tour
    • Creating and managing Regions
    • Default Landing and Orientation Regions
    • Region settings
    • Region template descriptions
  • CREATING CUSTOM EXPERIENCES
    • Branding tools
    • UI customization options
    • Filtering the Sine Wave Shop
    • Selecting default avatars
      • Default avatar collections
    • Using the Region Editor
      • Editing and moving objects
      • Editing terrain and sky
      • The Region Editor ADVANCED window
    • Exploring the Breakroom Toolkit
      • Breakroom Video Player
      • Breakroom Web Browser
      • Breakroom Image Viewer
      • Breakroom Info Kiosk
      • Breakroom Teleport Portal
      • Breakroom Web Collab
      • Breakroom Note Board
      • Breakroom Games
      • Breakroom Reactives
      • Breakroom Orientation Quest
      • Breakroom Tour Cameras
      • Conference rooms and booths
      • Add-on seats
      • Breakroom Start Here UI
      • Breakroom Basic Emojis
      • Breakroom 360° Video Player
    • Managing your Media Library
  • OPENING THE DOORS
    • Seats and concurrency
    • Creating and managing user accounts
      • World-level user permissions
      • Region-level user permissions
      • Single sign-on
      • Eventbrite integration
    • World Stream
      • Purchasing and managing World Credits
      • Pre-allocation campaigns
      • World Stream viewer toolbars
      • World Stream keyboard shortcuts
      • Troubleshooting World Stream issues on Chrome
      • Troubleshooting World Stream issues on macOS
    • Desktop viewers
    • Privacy Policies, EULAs, and data collection
    • Analytics
    • Toggling World availability
  • RUNNING YOUR EVENT
    • Understanding the conference system
      • Voice zones, zone types, and conference permissions
      • Voice chat and spatial audio
    • Customizing the conference system components
      • Adding breakout areas
      • Creating custom voice zones
      • Setting up Presenter and Audience zones
      • Designating triage zones
      • Troubleshooting duplicate zone errors
      • The RoomFurniture component
    • Setting up Breakroom for Training courses
    • Moderator tools
      • Broadcast messages
      • Crowd management
      • Audience questions
      • Raised hands
      • Presentation controls
      • Hidden UI toggle
      • Participation
      • Audio streams
  • TIPS FOR SUCCESS
    • Region Editor best practices
    • Onboarding new users
  • ADVANCED TUTORIALS
    • Uploading your own Region
      • Installing Unity and the Breakroom SDK
      • Reducing poly counts on CAD files
      • Uploading a Region from Unity to Breakroom
      • Creating and uploading custom chairs
      • Testing items on the preview server
      • Pushing items to the live server
      • Installing the conference system components
    • Uploading your own virtual objects
    • Uploading your own virtual clothing
    • Creating and copying avatar shapes
    • Installing the Quest System
    • Registration and grid APIs
    • Video streaming
    • Sinespace scripting documentation
  • HELP
    • Where to find support
    • Tutorial video playlists
      • Platform basics
      • Dashboard
      • Moderator tools
      • Breakroom Games
      • Creator Core
      • Breakroom for Training - Students
      • Breakroom for Training - Instructors
      • Breakroom for Training - Dashboard and Backend
    • Account management
    • System requirements
    • Troubleshooting network ports and firewalls
  • RELEASE NOTES
    • Breakroom SDK
    • Breakroom Viewer
    • Breakroom Dashboard
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  • Overview
  • Virtual experience terms
  • World
  • Region
  • Avatar
  • UI
  • Sine Wave Shop
  • Inventory
  • Gestures
  • Administrative terms
  • Dashboard
  • Seats
  • Concurrency
  • Desktop applications or desktop viewers
  • World Stream
  • Breakroom Toolkit
  • Conference tools
  • Moderator tools
  • Breakroom for Training
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  1. GETTING STARTED

Helpful terms

How is a World different from a Region? Check out our guide to Breakroom-speak, and learn how to define your virtual experience.

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Overview

If you're new to the Breakroom platform (or to virtual worlds in general), you'll need to master some new tech jargon. Here are some key terms that will help you understand the concepts detailed in our section, as well as communicate with our and other Breakroom users.

Virtual experience terms

World

In our older technical documentation, you may see Worlds referred to as Grids.

Region

Avatar

UI

Sine Wave Shop

Inventory

Gestures

Administrative terms

Dashboard

Seats

Concurrency

Desktop applications or desktop viewers

World Stream

Breakroom Toolkit

Conference tools

Moderator tools

Breakroom for Training

When Breakroom purchase a subscription, we provide access to a standalone instance of Breakroom, which we call a World. Client Worlds are completely disconnected from one another, and users can't enter your World unless you invite them or otherwise . Breakroom Worlds can contain multiple .

Breakroom can contain multiple Regions. It may be helpful to think of Regions as separate "rooms" within a World. Regions are generally disconnected from one another, but you can enable ways for users to travel between them (such as activating the or setting up ).

Breakroom offers a wide selection of , which are plug-and-play areas designed to host different kinds of events—everything from corporate conference halls to neon-lit music venues. Clients with access to 3D assets can also design and upload them to their World.

When you log in to Breakroom, you are given control over a graphical representation of yourself called an avatar. Avatars can be used to explore the virtual World and interact with other people. You can customize the way your avatar looks by selecting a or by using the tools available in the .

This abbreviation stands for user interface, and refers to all of the menus, maps, buttons, and windows that appear on your screen. World Owners can use the to enable or disable specific UI elements for end users. A key part of the UI consists of Breakroom's , which allow users to access voice chat, webcam and screen share, emojis, and other communication tools.

The allows users to browse through a content library full of avatar accessories, gestures, animations, and virtual furniture, much of it provided by community creators or by Breakroom. and can the Shop contents for end users, or to the Shop entirely.

Your Inventory contains all of your virtual belongings, such as any clothing or other accessories you've purchased to use on your avatar. Any virtual assets to Breakroom will also appear in your Inventory.

Gestures are that can be acted out by one or more avatars. By dancing, laughing, and interacting with other users, you can enrich your virtual experience and forge connections.

The Dashboard is a web portal that allows and to customize their Breakroom World, prepare for events, and manage user accounts. Our offers a concise overview of the available options.

Seats are otherwise known as user licenses, and represent the number of active user accounts that a Breakroom World can accommodate. In addition to the persistent seats included with a Breakroom subscription, and can add temporary seats through the use of .

Each seat is assigned a specific type. Seat types include Administrators, Developers, etc., and correspond to different .

Concurrency refers to the number of simultaneous users a Breakroom World can accommodate. Please note that a Breakroom account's concurrency cap may be different than its total count.

Breakroom provides for both Windows and macOS. When using a desktop viewer, there are no additional fees for user access. However, users will need to install the Breakroom app on a computer equipped with hardware that can 3D worlds.

is a cloud-based streaming solution for users who might not have access to advanced graphics processing hardware. World Stream can be run on any supported Internet browser, so users can access Breakroom from both desktop and mobile devices. World Stream access must be purchased on a per user/per time basis using a digital currency known as .

The consists of plug-and-play items designed to help add branding, media, and functional engagement to Regions. The Toolkit includes media displays, collaborative tools, interactive effects, and no-code gamification.

Breakroom's consist of voice chat, webcam streaming, and screen sharing, as well as navigation, moderation, interaction, and scheduling tools. Conference tools come pre-installed in most , and can be to any Region.

Key event coordinators and stakeholders will have access to , which allow Moderators to broadcast messages, teleport single users or crowds, manage audience questions, control the audio stream, and assist with presentations.

is a comprehensive learning management system that allows and to facilitate live online learning. Create touchback points and track student progress via the , and manage instructor access to in-world tools.

Region templates
custom Regions
starter avatar
Outfit window
Dashboard
conference tools
Sine Wave Shop
World Owners
World Administrators
filter
disable access
you upload
World Owners
World Administrators
Dashboard tour
World Owners
World Administrators
Daily Passes
World-level user permission levels
conference tools
Region templates
added
moderator tools
World Owners
grant access
Regions
Explore window
Teleport Portals
Worlds
seat
effectively render
desktop applications
World Credits
World Stream
World Owners, Administrators, and Developers
Breakroom Toolkit
Getting Started
Customer Success Team
Dashboard
Breakroom for Training
animations
Museum exhibits are only a click away when you use Breakroom to deliver interactive educational content.
A group of teenage avatars is gathered in a dimly lit museum room, where several artifacts from world religions are displayed. They are listening to a young male teacher speak, and a few teenagers have their hands raised.
World Owners
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