Touring Second Life Guide

Want to know how to tour Second Life, use a heads up display device and return to your current location?

Create a landmark - save your current location for returning later.

• Under the World menu on the menubar, select Create a Landmark. Close the landmark that appears. It is filed in the Landmarks folder in your inventory.

Using the Tour Notecard

• To teleport to a new location, you can open the tour notecard in your Notecards folder and click on a landmark (has a push pin symbol) to open it.
  
• Select teleport to visit it.
  

Don't have a Touring Second Life kit? Send a message in SL to Lyr Lobo to request it.

Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide to Second Life

Concept by Roger Thunders, Editorial Team: Bibi Book and Sun Hainsworth
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Distributed by Nick Noakes (Corwin Carillon in SL)

• Click the Hitchhiker's device to copy it to your inventory from your Lyr Lobo's Touring in Second Life notecard. Skip this step if you already have a copy.
  

When you have the Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide to SL in your inventory:

• In your objects folder, right click and wear the Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide to SL.
• A Heads-up Display (HUD) device appears on your display and a Travel HUD requests permission to act on your control inputs in the upper right corner of your display.
• Select the Accept button in the upper left corner of your display.
  

See an example of the HUD in the following image:



Using the Boracay Hitchhiker's Guide to Second Life

Menu and Help:

• On the HUD, click the upper left green button of your HUD for a Help notecard or the upper right button to see a menu of options.

The tour categories include Art, Museums, Learning, Exploring, Shopping, SLeducator and Newbies. Select a tour category and wait a moment for it to load.

• Use the arrow keys to cycle through a series of locations and click on the image to teleport to that location.
• Select the green circle to minimize the HUD and the red circle to maximize it.
  

Questions? Contact Lyr Lobo in Second Life. Have fun touring!