The in-world features are composed of three primary script types: Event Sensors,
Passive Scanners, and Chat Loggers. The V-Tracker system defines an Event
as a single occurance that can be trapped by the Second Life event management interface.
This translates to the events provided by LSL that are fired on a single instance;
touching an object, paying an object, bringing up a URl from an object, taking an
object, accepting an object, and several others. V-Tracker currently supports
Touch, Pay, and URL navigation, with more event types coming online 3rd Quarter
2007.
V-Tracker was designed from the ground up to be a scalable platform capable of supporting
large enterprise-wide initiatives now and into the foreseeable future. Leveraging
our background in enterprise web application development, it was a natural fit for
us to apply these technologies to the issue of stability, scalability, and performance.
Tracking visitors and visits is one of the primary uses for V-Tracker. As
many scanners can be placed as necessary, in various ranges and campaign settings,
in over lapping patterns if needed. Using campaigns is a handy way to isolate
short range traffic from larger area traffic scans. This keeps overlapping
scanner fields from becoming a problem and lets your numbers stay accurate.
A feature unique to V-Tracker is the ability to report across multiple campaigns
and by selecting specific sensors or scanners from each campaign. This flexibility
allows you to compare activity across campaigns and get a big-picture view of activity
across your projects.
Capturing this metric data can be useful, but not if this data is trapped in our
system. Your data is never trapped, as V-Tracker will let you export to Excel,
PDF, XML, and other data types at will. It's your data, and you can take it
with you.
V-Tracker provides powerful search interfaces and reporting options. You can
view the collected data in a wide variety of ways giving you insight into your presence
in the Metaverse. Average visit length by campaign, total visit minutes by
campaign or scanner location, number of unique visitors, number of total visits,
all selected by date range are just a few of the reporting
options. Graphs
are used extensively to assist in the analysis of what can be a very large amounts
of data.
