Sold through Scribble, the Purikura Photobooth is a fun booth for taking framed fun group shots. Styled after the real life Purikura booths found all over Japan (and similar concepts in other countries), the booth has a few backgrounds, some frames and allows you to add text or drawing to your photograph.
The booth is easy to rez – have your edit window open firstly, and then you can quickly move it into position where-ever you want it. The full booth shell – which comes with unlinked accessories- is only 10 prims.
The booth consists of a background screen, ready-set poseballs (five of them in different colours), a front curtain for decor, and a small frame which is placed in front of the backgrounds screen.
Sit on a poseball, and use your Esc key – your camera view will jump to the front of the frame, with you inside.
The Working Buttons for the Purikura Photobooth
Around the frame you will find some buttons – one changes the background, one changes the frame, and coloured selection buttons operate the graphical text writer.
There are five pose balls for a group of friends, and each poseball contains several poses, changeable with the use of your keyboard page ups and page downs.
The poseballs and photobooth option buttons can be made invisible with the standard use of ‘/1 show ‘or ‘/1 hide’ commands in chat. Backgrounds and frames are easily changeable also.
The only problem I found was in using the graphic elements. You are meant to be able to draw on the screen, using your mouse. I could easily change colours, but getting more than one line on screen was difficult to do. Circles, and certainly writing is near impossible for me.
And the graphics – if you do get them working in your own environment, disappear after a minute. So you have to make them in a hurry. I ponder if my own problems were caused by being set up on a laggy homestead SIM. This seemed to be the case once I got another person into the booth with me – briefly we got the graphics working for both of us, then nothing. This was at a time when our region was experiencing high lag due to it being Sunday night on Second Life, a popular time.
Once setup, with background, frame – and possibly the graphic love hearts, arrows and painted in moustaches – you simply use snapshot to take the image.
Framed, a Resulting Image from the Booth
Group Lark, another result from the Photobooth
And they are fun images. This is a fun photobooth, particularly as it gives your group models the ability to write onto the screen also (apparently) and they can change their own poses too. The poses are fun also – of the dorky kind.
De-rez your photobooth and you’ll find you have all the parts to take into inventory also. So, technically you can use the background panel and poseballs elsewhere.
For what it does and the cost of L£2500, you could as easily set out some poseballs and quirky backgrounds for a group, and use an external photo editor and/or tablet to add in some quirky graphics. But that’s not the point.
The point is that you get a group of friends in-world, squeeze them into a small photobooth, get them to lark around with their poses, and scribble something they think is funny onscreen, and take a photo of the results. Just like you would in real life.
That’s the point of the Purikura Photobooth.
SLurl : Scribble
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