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New World Notes<\/h2>\n

The world’s longest-running metaverse news and culture site. By Wagner James Au, author of “Making a Metaverse that Matters”<\/h2>\n

Here’s How AI Bots Could Help Improve Second Life’s New User Experience (Comment of the Week)<\/h3>\n
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In our latest post about improving Second Life’s first-time user experience<\/a>, longtime reader\/retired tech exec Luther Weymann details how AI might help with that:<\/p>\n

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AI bots are assigned to each new user. Read the IP address; if the new user is using it for the first time, they cannot disconnect the AI bot until it finishes. If the IP is a repeat user, allow disconnect.<\/p>\n

The AI bot takes the new user through most processes, including how to rez, change clothes in a sandbox, tour important SL sites, and click a dance ball and dance. How to Add or Wear, how voice and text work, just a great list of things to know.<\/p>\n

It takes 30 minutes, maybe longer if it’s fun, entertaining, and you’re getting a great intro to SL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He contrast that with the current first-time user experience, which involves reading many in-world signs:<\/p>\n

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Reading signs on a walkway has never worked. I’ve tried for 16 years to help Day 1 people. Almost none of them know how to rez, that free clothes are on the SL Market, what a rez zone or sandbox is, how to change clothes, or what a dance ball is where you can join a group dancing.<\/p>\n

You guys at SL have to overcome this. Lead them by the hand and see if concurrency increases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This all sounds right. I think the key thing is differentiating the AI bot from a human-controlled avatar. I would actually recommend making the bot part<\/em> of the viewer, a disembodied voice which can also enable relevant controls in the user experience to light up, when giving tutorials.<\/p>\n

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I’ve even recommend making the bot a character<\/em> in a Second Life world narrative. For an idea of what I mean, check out this first-time experience from Scavengers,\u00a0 a recent multiplayer game with a lead designer who once worked at Linden Lab<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n