Truth & Beauty Lab Answer Board Version 7.0


Answer Boards can be on hand to greet and inform or entertain guests on your parcel even when you are offline. A properly customized Answer Board can act effectively as a personal or business assistant, directing and informing your visitors to products, services, or personal whereabouts. Once deployed an Answer Board is not a static feature of the parcel but continues to evolve as responses to additional matching words, phrases, questions, and comments are programmed or learned.
Truth & Beauty Lab Answer Boards are configured to query Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha for responses making the Answer Board the smartest scripted agent in Second Life. Answer Boards can also be used to deliver notecards/landmarks, greet new arrivals, scan the area for objects and avatars, send email, respond to chat commands from its owner, and emit a wide variety of particle displays. A graphical dialog menu allows you to easily configure and use your Answer Board.
This generation of Answer Board can detect the user's language and query that language Wikipedia providing responses in the user's language. When properly configured Wikipedia queries that do not match an article will fallback on Wolfram Alpha and then AI chat thus providing you and your guests with instant access to the world's largest and most accurate repositories of information.
This package contains one preconfigured Answer Board from the Truth & Beauty Lab. It is ready for immediate use and should require no initial setup. However, each Answer Board can be extensively customized.
Truth & Beauty Lab Answer Boards contain the following features:
- Wikipedia & Wolfram Alpha query support including Unicode character display
- Detects user's language and queries that language Wikipedia
- Emits a variety of particle displays on command, sequentially, or random
- Scans the area for avatars and objects producing a detailed report
- Can target an avatar or object for particle beam
- Can locate an object or avatar by name (find hidden items!)
- Email – you can use your Answer Board to send email
- Greeter functionality so Answer Boards can detect and greet new arrivals
- Notecard and Landmark dispenser
- Highly configurable including ability to restrict responses based on name
- Dialog menu configuration makes it easy to configure
- Configure which language Wikipedia to use
- Configurable as public (local chat) or private channel only – low lag
Although ready to use "out of the box", the Truth & Beauty Lab Answer Board can be extensively configured. Simply left click the Answer Board or say “configure” or “menu” in local chat and a dialog menu interface will be displayed. Most of the options you would want to customize are available in the dialog menu. Note that if you have configured a private Answer Board chat channel then the “menu” and “configure” chat commands must be issued on that channel.
The owner can chat the following commands to the Answer Board. Note that if a private channel has been configured then the chat commands must be issued on that channel. The chat commands are:
menu - display the Answer Board configuration & command dialog menu
laser - fire a laser beam from the Answer Board
burst - emit a colorful burst of particles
bubbles - emit bubble particles
bling - turn on sparkly bling lights
sparkle - emit a shower of sparkles
blue balls - emit bursts of blue balls
cycle - sequentially cycle through the particle displays and animations
hearts - emit heart particles
shamrocks - emit shamrock particles
clovers - emit 4 leaf clover particles
more - emit more particles
less - emit fewer particles
faster - increase the frequency at which particles are emitted
slower - decrease the frequency at which particles are emitted
next - go to the next particle display
prev - go to the previous particle display
default - set the particle display parameters back to the defaults
off - terminate the particle display
avatars - scan the area for avatars
scan - scan the area for avatars and objects
find <name> - attempts to locate the named object or avatar
random - randomly cycle through the particle displays and animations
lightning - emit lightning particles
Commands are case insensitive. The chat commands are also available as buttons in the “Commands” sub-menu of the dialog menu.
Download instructions See item in Second Life- Greet, inform, and entertain guests - detects user's language
- Provide interactive information even when offline
- Scan for objects/avatars and emit particle beam
- Detects Language & Queries that Language Wikipedia
- Can query Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha for responses!