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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
  • An important note concerning voice chat
  • Downloading the application installers
  • Installing the desktop application
  • Re-creating your installers
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  1. OPENING THE DOORS

Desktop viewers

Breakroom's desktop application is a powerful tool for accessing your World. Use it for increased stability and performance while editing your Regions, or to conserve World Credits.

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Last updated 10 months ago

Overview

Breakroom provides desktop application installers for both Windows and macOS. When users log in through your dedicated Breakroom viewer, there are no additional access fees above the cost of their —which means that you won't need to dip into your pool of . However, users will need to install the Breakroom app on a computer equipped with that can effectively render 3D Worlds.

An important note concerning voice chat

Users who log in via the same method can communicate freely. Therefore, we strongly suggest that you take this into consideration when planning your events, and require all guests to use either World Stream or the desktop app.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to provide a solution soon.

Downloading the application installers

After you finalize your subscription purchase, it will take 48 hours for Breakroom to generate app installers for your world. Once your installers are ready, they will be added to the Dashboard > Your Apps tab, where you can download one or both installers by clicking the Windows or macOS buttons. We also provide download links that you can distribute to your users.

Installing the desktop application

To install the desktop viewer, follow the steps below.

  1. Download the correct installer (Windows or macOS) for your computer.

  2. Locate the installer on your hard drive, and double-click on it.

  3. Follow the installer prompts.

Re-creating your installers

To update your desktop application installers, follow the steps below.

  1. Click on the Your Apps tab.

  2. Click the Re-create Installers button.

Voice capabilities are currently restricted by login method. This means that if one user is logged in via and another user is logged in via the desktop app, they will not be able to hear each other over voice chat, even if they are standing in the same Region.

You can find your custom application installers on the . Once you're logged in, click the Download App button in the tab header, or navigate to the Your Apps tab.

Breakroom's desktop viewer represents a major graphics and performance upgrade compared to . For best performance, you will need a PC or laptop that is capable of running 3D worlds. For maximum performance, we recommend using a machine with a dedicated graphics card. Please review our for more information.

If you decide to update any custom associated with your World, or if you your World as a whole, you will need to create and distribute fresh desktop app installers in order to push those changes to your users.

Navigate to your .

Please note that it may take Breakroom up to 48 hours to re-create your app installers. If you need your app installers sooner, please reach out to our .

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Highlighted: The location of the Download App button.
Pictured: The Dashboard > Your Apps tab.