VLOI Your Personal Lodge of Instruction
Traditionally ritual is practiced either at a formal Lodge of Instruction, or informally outside of meeting hours,
Advances in web technology, and the wide availability of fast access to the Internet, have made possible home and remote learning.
VLOI is an on-line web application, no downloads, no install, no fuss, just connect, create an account, login, and you are ready to go
VLOI Overview
Using the VLOI dashboard you set up a ritual by first placing the participants and furniture in their starting positions then animating them to enact the Ritual and Rubric. This includes moving around, performing actions, and talking using text-to-speech.
For obvious reasons, no real ritual is supplied. That is created by you in the privacy of your own home.
The only data held on the website is that which is required to create and run Rituals and Reaaltime Session. That data is never shared with any third party.
A series of Videos is in preparation designed to take you through the use of the Dashboard and building a set of generic Pseudo-Rituals to show how they are built, executed and maintained.
Orders Supported
When first run the dashboard is set for the Craft.
Other orders are then available to add as required. The reason for not showcasing them is so as to not to spoil the experience of joining a new order,
Each order has it own layout, furniture, badges and colour scheme.
Currently you can add the Holy Royal Arch. Other orders will be made available over time.
In the pipeline we have layouts for MMM, RAM, ARK, RSM, KT, KM, MOA, MOKAG, PP.
VLOI-Web
The VLOI Web app is FREE for personal use, just click on the link below.
[ .. coming soon …]
VLOI-RT
RT (real-time, is an add-on that provides the abilty to collaborate with others in Real-Time. The Originator invites Participants to join a Virtual Meeting, The Originator sets up a scenario, demonstrates the ceremony , and the Participants screens are synchonised in Real-time.
We recommend Zoom as the connection method, though any of the products out there would suffice. Unlike screen-sharing, participants cab keep the sceraio and contnue practicing after the meeting.
RT is enabled on the free version for evaluation one-to-one, sessions, max duration 10 Mins, subject the traffic management.
if you find RT useful you can purchase a 90 minute session with up to 10 participants.
At the moment the cost is £5 per session.
VLOI-Desktop
VLOI-Desktop-Personal is free. It has all the features of the web version but operates off-line and as it is a desktop app, ituses the local filing system for storage.
Whereas the web-version is always up to date, there is delay before the desktop version is updated. The good news is that there is no complicated installation, just download and run.
VLOI-Desktop Pro
The Desktop-Pro version is in development, It will contain some additional premium features, full details to follow as they become avaiable,
In the pipeline are Role Play – use your own voice; a Line-Learnig Assistant and more…
Watch this space.