# Experience Settings

## **Final Touches Before Deployment**

These settings define how your avatar behaves during live interaction and how the experience is sustained or terminated based on user activity.

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## **AFK Timeout**

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Set an **AFK (Away-From-Keyboard)** timeout to manage idle sessions and conserve your pixel-streaming minutes.

* Open the **dropdown menu** under AFK Timeout.
* Select a suitable timeout duration (e.g., 1 min, 5 mins, 10 mins).
* The session will automatically end based on your selection if there’s no user activity.

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To optimize your account's usage, set an AFK timeout to avoid unnecessary streaming consumption.
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## **Welcome Message**

Greet users as soon as they enter the experience with customizable welcome interactions.

**Standard Welcome**

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* Toggle **“Welcome Message”** ON.
* Enable a **custom welcome prompt** (e.g., “Welcome the user and introduce yourself”).
* Click **“Test Welcome Message”** to preview it.

**Vision-Based Welcome**

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Make the greeting more dynamic by enabling vision awareness:

* Toggle **“Vision-Based Welcome Message”** ON.
* Add a **custom prompt** (e.g., “A person approaches—welcome them and make a comment about their attire or an object they’re holding”).
* Use **“Test Message”** to preview how the avatar responds based on webcam input.

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## **User Microphone Settings**

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Select the input style that fits your use case:

* **Hands-Free Mode (WIP)**\
  Avatar listens continuously.
* **Push-to-Talk Mode**\
  Activate microphone input only when the assigned key is pressed.
  * You can **assign a custom key** for push-to-talk functionality.

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## Processing Frequency

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Control how often the avatar processes and reacts to input, allowing it to act more proactively.

* Open the **dropdown menu** for processing frequency.
* Choose a time interval for the avatar to periodically evaluate multimodal inputs (voice, text, vision).
* This enables **agentic behavior** — where the avatar can initiate interaction based on user presence or signals.

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After making changes:

* Click **“Save Changes”**
* If you are creating an Avatar for this character for the first time, press the **"Create Character"** button **before proceeding to the publishing step.**
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