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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
  • Basic World Stream functionality
  • World Stream server types
  • World Credits
  • Partial hours and World Credit consumption
  • Launching World Stream
  • Media access permissions
  • Logging in to World Stream
  • Switching World Stream user accounts
  • Important notes
  • Cross-platform voice capabilities
  • Browser auto-play
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  1. OPENING THE DOORS

World Stream

World Stream makes Breakroom accessible to everyone, everywhere. Learn how everyone can meet in the Metaverse, even if they don't have a mind-blowing computer setup.

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Last updated 10 months ago

Overview

World Stream is an innovative cloud-based solution for enterprise and educational communities where members might not have access to advanced graphics processing hardware. World Stream renders your Breakroom World in a series of cloud servers, and then streams a dynamic, interactive live video of that World to each user's device.

This offers many benefits, including:

  1. Users don't need to download or install anything. No plugins, no standalone apps.

  2. Users don't need to have the latest and greatest computer hardware. As long as their device can run a supported browser and has access to the Internet, they're ready to stream.

Microsoft Edge usually comes bundled with Windows. In order to use World Stream, you must use the version of Edge which, like Google Chrome, is built on the Chromium engine. Prior to logging in to World Stream through Microsoft Edge, please make sure that Windows Update has been run recently and that you are using the most recent version of Edge.

Basic World Stream functionality

World Stream access is provided by AWS, which uses a variety of locations for delivery. Upon logging in, World Stream users will automatically be assigned to an available, low-latency AWS instance close to their physical location. In order for World Stream to be delivered, system administrators will need to whitelist the following domains:

*.breakroom.tech

*.amazonappstream.com

*.appstream2.eu-central-1.aws.amazon.com

*.appstream2.eu-west-1.aws.amazon.com

*.appstream2.eu-west-2.aws.amazon.com

*.appstream2.eu-east-1.aws.amazon.com

*.furioos.com

Additionally, please enable outbound UDP and TCP traffic on ports 443, 8433, and 53.

Users attempting to connect to Breakroom from behind an aggressive firewall may run into issues, as they will have limited access to the Internet. In these cases, a commercial TURN server may provide the necessary solution.

World Stream server types

World Credits

Partial hours and World Credit consumption

This means that users cannot consume partial hours while logged in to World Stream. For example, if a user logs in for 20 minutes, the cost of one hour of access (60 minutes) will be deducted from the World Credits available on the account.

Launching World Stream

World Stream can be accessed just like any other website. When you purchase a Breakroom subscription, you will be provided with a dedicated World Stream URL. You can copy this URL in order to share it with your users.

Several of the buttons in these headers can be used to launch World Stream or access the World Stream URL. Here's a brief overview of the UI.

Header button
Function

Add Credits

Allows you to purchase World Credits instantly from any page on the Dashboard.

Enter Your World

Opens your dedicated World Stream URL in a new tab.

Advanced

Power icon

Logs you out of the Dashboard.

Copy World URL

Copies your World Stream URL to your computer's clipboard.

Download App

Media access permissions

Logging in to World Stream

Switching World Stream user accounts

If you close World Stream and attempt to start it again a short time later, you may see an account confirmation dialog box appear during the login process. If you want to log in under the account you previously used, click Continue. If you want to log in with another user account, click Switch Account.

Important notes

Cross-platform voice capabilities

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.

Browser auto-play

World Stream is currently supported on , , and . For the best possible experience, we recommend using Chrome. You can review detailed in our .

Only and can access the Dashboard.

You can learn more about AWS allowed domains by visiting .

If you encounter problems with WebRTC, you can perform a WebRTC test at .

Breakroom offers two types of server access—Ultra Servers and Lite Servers. Ultra Servers are recommended for cases, while Lite Servers are an economical choice for smaller events. Please see our information on and for more details.

When users log in through your dedicated Breakroom , there are no additional access fees above the cost of their . World Stream access, on the other hand, must be purchased on a per user/per time basis using a digital currency known as World Credits.

and can at any time. Unused World Credits never expire, even if your Breakroom subscription lapses.

Due to the way AWS structures its billing, World Stream usage is currently calculated in hourly increments (i.e., multiples of 60 minutes). This hourly calculation policy also extends to and .

When you log in to the Breakroom , you will see a permanent site header (in the example image above, this header is dark purple). You will also see a secondary tab header on each Dashboard tab you visit.

Allows World Owners, Administrators, and Developers to log in to .

Directs you to the .

When you click on a World Stream URL, your browser may request permission to use your microphone or camera. If a pop-up like this appears, click Allow or Okay. If you accidentally refuse permission or close the pop-up without making a choice, see our for assistance.

Once you've opened the World Stream URL in your web browser, you'll see an Account Login panel. Here you can either enter your credentials and click the Login button to connect to World Stream, or sign up for a new account if is enabled.

Once you've successfully logged in, that's it! Basic information about using Breakroom can be found in our .

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 a Breakroom , they will not be able to hear each other over voice chat, even if they are standing in the same Region.

Some browsers come equipped with "auto-play policies" that automatically block websites from playing audio and video until you interact with the content. In addition to to World Stream, you may also need to click on the page or otherwise interact with the streaming content in order to enable audio. You will need to repeat this action if you refresh the page.

Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
technical specifications
Help section
this page
https://test.webrtc.org/
desktop app
seat
Dashboard
troubleshooting documentation
Getting Started section
World Stream
desktop viewer
granting media permissions
Curator
high user concurrency
event pre-allocation
purchase additional World Credits
pre-allocation campaigns
World Owners
World Administrators
World Owners
World Administrators
purchasing and managing World Credits
user session time limits
self-registration
Highlighted: The Breakroom access buttons in the site and secondary tab headers.
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