The Classroom Rezzer, with its three classy scenes, could be used to inspire and provide education everywhere, especially in the developing world, as satellite broadband infrastructure reaches places where there is insufficient money to provide physical buildings and qualified teachers for education of all sorts at all levels. To this end, Second Life provides this possibility in what is probably the greatest boon to mankind ever. To my mind, there is nothing more important than education, which can transform people's lives in every situation.
The Classroom Rezzer is interactive and engrossing for the students to an extraordinary degree unmatched by any other medium. As well as enabling a teacher in one part of the real world to teach students in another part of the world in real time, with a sense of actually 'being there together', the students can speak to the teacher and both can engage fully with each other, even by introducing physical objects for illustration and discussion. No medium other than Second Life or this type of virtual world enables such interactivity.
The Classroom Rezzer contains three scenes:
1. An enclosed Classroom in a blue, glass-domed building, having 32 tiered seats containing cross-legged sitting animations; a podium with two speaker’s lecterns; and a slideshow viewer into which you can put your own slideshows and which potentially can also show videos.
2. A green-decor Meeting Room appearing to be an open-air, covered structure in a large, English country garden; having 12 seats with cross-legged sitting animations around a glass and marble table, a podium having two speaker’s lecterns; and a slideshow viewer into which you can put your own slideshows and which potentially can also show videos.
3. A beautifully-proportioned, circular-modular open-air auditorium with 32 tiered seats with cross-legged sitting animations; a slideshow viewer into which you can put your own slideshows and which potentially can also show videos; three connected areas for additional presentations.
The Classroom Rezzer itself takes the form of a flying rug, based on Hampton Hax's EZ MagicChair, with seating cushions and sitting animations for 5 persons. It can be left in-scene or made to ‘hide’ or ‘show’. It is designed to lift and then rez any scene to any of 12 different heights up to 4000m, and return to ground afterwards having de-rezzed the scene.
Important: The scenes can be modified but any changes will be lost on de-rezzing so any additional items included into the scenes must be taken back into inventory before de-rezzing.
Please note that the cushion seats will ALL show a script error when clicked by anyone. This is because they're all linked. The script in them still works properly. If you wish, and especially if your scene will be permanent, you could de-link them so the script error will no longer show, but you would have to remember to delete the chairs before de-rezzing the scene. Probably it's easier just to leave them the way they were :) They'll keep coming up that way every time you rez them.
Please be aware of the need to avoid rezzing the scenes overlapping any neighbouring land; this may cause some items to fail to rez.
I wish to acknowledge the help of my colleague and mentor Rick Edwardstone without whose help the Classroom Rezzer would surely have remained merely an aspiration.
I also want to acknowledge and thank Hamton Hax for his MagicChair creation, Spider Corleone for the scripts in Snowflake's Presentation Board, and Snowflake herself, also Christine Fearn for the sitting animations in the flying carpet, and Ananda Sandgrain for the cross-legged sitting animations, all of which were free to distribute and are being distributed free here, not to be resold. Donations will be sent to the above from any income generated,
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A Working, Adaptable Build
Despite the previous review (written several years ago!), you will find that this is exactly as advertised. Because one of my first acquisitions in SL was the Magic Chair, on which this is modeled, I may have had an advantage in understanding how to work the rezzer, but the instructions inside it are clear enough.
For those scared off by the negative review--rez the couch with the blue seats and poseballs. Sit on one (the "couch" is both a rezzer and a teleporter). Click on the couch and then, through the menus, set a height and a scene to rez. (I liked the "green room" best.) The couch teleports you to that height and rezzes the scene at that spot. That's it. Sitting again (unless you like free-falling from great heights) and choosing "return" from the menu teleports you back to the origin point and cleans up the scene you just left.
This is not a "modern" build. It is obviously pre-mesh, etc., etc. However, it is perfectly usable and I did find the green room attractive. All-in-all, it is a generous gift.
I did want to leave a review to counter an unjust criticism--and to thank the builder for it.
Not what is pictured
What a joke. Good for cuddles thats about it