1. From the Administration menu go to “Business Setup” (tab), then “Operation Settings”:

Then click on the “Add/Edit Operation Settings” button under your experiences:

2. From the next opened screen, click on the “Add Per-Game Based Rule” button:

3. Enter in the name of your Per Game Session in the “Title” section. Best practice would be to name the rule with the title of the game or games you will be assigning to the rule. You may find after creating several of these that you’ll want to go back in and adjust the title as needed.

4. To add an Experience, click on the “Add Experience, Game Category and Billing +” button and a new line item will be added below where you can add in the appropriate experience. From the drop down menus you’ll need to choose the Experience Type, the Game Category, and the Cost of the game. You can add additional line items by clicking the “Add Experience, Game Category and Billing +” button. Note that by adding a new line item, you will be creating a seperate Rule set that you can further refine and edit, but it will initially share the remaining parts of this rule set.

To remove a line item in this section, click on the red “x” to the right of it.

5. Add in tax (if applicable in your state/country) in the “Sales Tax in %” section or leave it blank if you don’t charge tax, and select the open time and close time for this rule by clicking in the “Open Time” and “Close Time” sections and choosing the appropriate time from the drop down menu (24 hour format). The open and close times can be any time within your open hours (be sure that the close time is after the open time), so different rule groups could have different open times, but this particular rule group will share those same hours. For example, you can have certain rules only apply between the hours of 12pm – 6pm. You can also refine them by day below that by checking or unchecking certain days of the week in the “Days” section. For example, you can have certain rules only apply on Fridays and Saturdays by unchecking Monday-Thursday. If you check the “Days” checkbox it will select all days of the week.

6. Choose the effective dates of this rule using the “First Date” and “Active Until” sections. If it’s something you will offer any time your arcade is open, choose a starting date of today or earlier and an end date that is far into the future. You can also restrict this rule to only be applicable for a certain date range. This will be extremely useful if you have a promotion that can only be booked for, as an example, the month of August, or perhaps if you want to have it only available during tournaments or similar.

7. Once you’ve entered in all the necessary (and optional) sections, you will see that the “Save” button is now solid and clickable. Click that to save, otherwise your edits will be lost. If you want to exit and start over click the tiny “x” button in the top right of the window or click the “Hide” button at the bottom of the window.

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“Experience Add-On” is a purchasable add-on for Synthesis VR Essential Access .

Modules & Add-Ons are purchasable features that increase the functionality and capability of the Synthesis VR platform.

The “Experience Add-On” allows you to create and manage custom VR Session Types..

Additional Notes:

• The Experience Types Add-On is built on top of the VR Session Manager Module, which is required.
• The “Experience” Add-On and “VR Session Manager” are purchasable with free credit

1. From the Left Menu – Click Administration – Arcade Setup – and then click on the “Experience Types” button.

2. Click on the “New Experience Type” button on the left and then fill the information in the popup.

4. Click on the “Enable For VR Arcades +” button and that will add a drop down menu choice allowing you to choose which arcade location(s) you want this particular Experience Type to be available. If you have more than one arcade/location, you’ll need to add multiple locations by clicking the “Enable For VR Arcades +” button again for as many locations as you have. You will then click on the drop down menu to choose each location.

5. Enter in the title of the Experience Type in the “Title” section. Enter in the description of the Experience Type in the “Description” section. Note that the description will appear in your online booking widget, so keep it informative and concise.

6. Define the charge method: Here you can select in what method you prefer to change for the particular experience type. You can either charge by stations or for the experience, whereas the party booking come into play.
7. Show as Book Now option – Enable this if you want customers to Book Online using SynthesisVR booking widget.
8. Desktop Communication: Default value should be set to Yes unless using it for Virtual Stations which is not the default case.
9. Position On The List – If you’d like your Experience Types sorted manually, you will want to enter in the number position within the list you want this Experience Type listed within the “Position On The List” section. Sorting manually will allow you to see them in a specific order when making a reservation and through online bookings, etc. This section is not required and if left blank, Experience Types are sorted by when they were entered.
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10. If you’ll be using SynthesisVR to initiate recordings in this particular experience type, choose “Always Capturing” or “Disabled, but can be turned on by the operator” in the “Video Recording On File” drop down menu, otherwise leave it at “Disabled” to not allow video recording.
11. If this Experience Type should only be available to Admins, choose yes from the drop down menu in “Only Visible To Admins”, otherwise leave it at “No”.
12. On enabling “Pause session on HMD Idle” the session will be automatically paused on being idle and will resume on moving again.
13. Intro Video and Outro Video – If you want customers to watch a certain video before the start of this experience and after the end of an experience, give the necessary URL on these fields.

14. The minimum number of stations that can be booked for the particular experience can be defined using Minimum number of stations in a session.

15. The maximum number of stations that can be booked for the particular experience can be defined using Maximum number of stations in a session.

16. Difference in minutes on the calendar allows you to decide the time difference in between the booking slots.

17. If this Experience Type is for all stations, then choose “Yes” from the “Complete Stations Booking” drop down menu. This will be most useful for walk in sessions for a full venue and will save a few steps. This would also be good for online bookings for full venue reservations. If this is for individual stations or anything less than the full venue booking, then choose “No” from the drop down menu.

18. Once you’ve entered in all the necessary (and optional) sections, you will see that the “Save” button is now solid and clickable. Click that to save, otherwise your edits will be lost. If you want to exit and start over click the tiny “x” button in the top right of the window or click the “Hide” button at the bottom of the window.

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To create a game category navigate to Administration>> Business Setup >> Games, Categories, Licenses.

Followed by clicking on the Categories tab:

To create a new category, click on the large New Category button. This will bring up a new game category window.

• Title: This will be the name of the Game Category and will be visible to your customers.
• The List Type will determine if this Game Category is always visible, is optionally visible (determined at session start on a per station basis), is restricted from showing (specific to the games in this Game category), or optionally restricted (determined at session start on a per session basis). More on the Restricted Game Categories further down.
• Use as Home Screen will set this Game Category as the default one the customer will be taken to when they bring up the menu.

To add games to the Game Category, you can either double click on the games displayed in the left column or drag them from the left column to the right space. Note that the list on the left can be searched using the search field at the top (and additionally, this list only displays games discovered to be installed on your stations). If you are building a Game Category of all your games, you can simply click on the “Assign all your installed games”:

To organize the order your games displayed in you simply need to click and drag the games within the right hand list. Alternatively, if you want them in alphabetical order you can click on the “Sort Alphabetically” button.

Once done, click on the Save button at the bottom.

At this time, you have only created a game category and it is not connected to anything else. To have it shown to customers, you need to assign the Game Category to one or more of your Work Rules. You can refer to this article for Work Rules within Operation Settings: https://synthesisvr.com/knowledge-base/work-rules-by-duration/

Note that you can also reach the Work Rule by clicking on it where it shows it is Assigned in the Categories section:

When you are in the Work Rule, head to the Games tab and simply click on the Assign Game Categories + button to add more Game Categories or click on the red x to remove game Categories. Using the drop down on each Game Category allows you to choose which one will show.

Note that the order the Game Categories show in this section is the order they will display for the customer in the headset.

Enforced vs Optional

If you create an Available Games – Enforced Game Category, then when you assign the Game Category will show in every session that the Game Category is assigned to.

If you create a Restricted Access – Enforced Game Category, then when you assign this Game Category to a Work Rule, all games in this Game Category will be hidden in any other Game Categories are assigned to that Work Rule. This is most helpful if you want to create different Work Rules with the same Game Categories as your other Work Rules, but don’t want to go through and create different Game Categories to remove individual games and you can just add this Restricted Game Category to the Work Rule.

If you create an Available Games – Optional Game Category and assign it to a Work Rule, than you are able, on a station by station basis, decide to include that category or not in the session. Note that at the start of a session, the Available Games – Optional categories will be selected by default and must be UNCHECKED to have them not show.

If you create a Restricted Access – Optional Game Category and assign it to a Work Rule then you are able, again on a station by station basis, decide to essentially hide the games in this Game Category from a specific station. Note that at the start of a session, the Restricted Access – Optional categories will be unselected by default and must be CHECKED to hide games in this category.

In the below image, the “Easy” Game Category is set to Available Games – Optional and the Medium is set to Restricted Access – Optional. Again, each station can have different options chosen at the start of a session.

You can also assign games directly from the game itself. From the Your Games tab in the Games, Categories, Licenses section click on any game and go to the Categories tab:

From there you can Enable or Disable a Game Category that a game is assigned to. Once finished, click on the Save button at the bottom. Note that a Game Category must have at least one game assigned to it prior to using this method. You can use the drop down number on the right of an Enabled Game Category to assign where in the list the game should show up.

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