Starting and Ending your Roleplay
Summary: Practice different workplace skills by roleplaying with an AI-powered avatar.
Entering your Roleplay Environment
Once you have confirmed your roleplay, you will enter into your chosen or randomized environment to start your avatar roleplay.
Roleplay Description and Tips
In a roleplay scene, you will find a panel that is labelled 'Roleplay description' where you can read more information about your selected Roleplay Scenario before you begin.
Moving the Roleplay Analysis Panel
The Roleplay panel appears near the avatar in front of you. You can reposition and move the panel to suit your needs.
To grab the panel, point your laser or move your hand to the edge of the panel, causing it to highlight
Press the 'inner grip' on your controller to pick up and move around the panel
Once you have finished moving the panel, release the 'inner grip' to lock the panel in place
You can also control the distance the panel appears from you by moving the joystick on your controller forward or backwards.
Within the scene, you can also pick up and move around the 'Roleplay Description' Panel.
Roleplay Tool Panel
In every Avatar roleplay scene, a Roleplay Tool Panel appears as a fixed interface featuring buttons to assist you. As shown in the image below, this panel remains permanently positioned in a clear, visible location.
Presentation Slides - To turn on your presentation slides, you can select this button to show or hide the presentation slides as placed in the scene.
Closed Captions - You can turn on the closed captions or subtitles panel to appear above the Roleplay Analysis Panel by selecting this button.
Suggested Responses - To turn on your suggested responses panel, you can select this button to show or hide the suggested responses panel.
Reset Interface - This option restores the interface to its default position if you accidentally move or lose an interface object in the scene. Selecting this button returns all interface elements to their original placement.
Accessing Help - If you need assistance while using the VirtualSpeech app, you can access this help guide at any time by selecting this symbol.
Restart Scene - If you need to begin the roleplay again, press this button to completely reset the scene and return to your original starting point.
Return Home - Selecting this option will return you to the main menu. If you click this option during a roleplay, any progress will not be saved.
Starting your Avatar Roleplay
In the scene, you will find the Roleplay Analysis Panel, which serves as your primary tool for your roleplay. As shown below, this panel is consistently positioned in front of the avatar.
To begin your roleplay, select the 'Begin Roleplay' button. This will start the process, activate your microphone, and begin the conversation.
Ending your Avatar Roleplay
Once you feel ready to end your conversation with the avatar, select the 'End Conversation' button shown in the image below.
This will end the conversation and display a loading screen. The app stops recording and begins processing all collected information and conversation data while transitioning you to the 'Coaching' scene, where you can review your performance.
You can find out more about the Feedback and Coaching by clicking here Viewing your Feedback and Results