Master Guide
Service procedure
Destination & time setting: Check the address and Google Street View link of your destination(tourist spot, business site, event, etc.). Schedule a video call to your destination for up to one hour, considering the local time.
- Initial deposit: Charge the initial deposit by cryptocurrency or PayPal with the digital wallet provided.
- Apply: Apply for an on-site video call at your destination and preferred time. Wait for a local streamer (avatar) to accept your request.
- Accepted: If some avatar accepts your request, you will receive a notification message.
- Not accepted: If no one accepts your request, your initial deposit can be refunded or used for another application.
- Start a video call: All users can start a video call at the scheduled trip time. Once connected, ask your avatar to begin streaming. If you want to experience a live virtual trip with a bigger screen, connect your smartphone screen to a smart TV.
- End a video call: When ending a video call, first inform the avatar. Then press the call termination button and the reconfirm button.
- Payment: Thirty minutes after ending a video call, the trip fare will be sent to your avatar’s account.
- Service rating: You can rate the service quality of your avatar to improve the service and help other users.
- Cancellation: Be careful about canceling your trip reservation. Low reputations can negatively affect your matching. When canceling your reservation first, you must pay a cancellation fee to the avatar according to the following criteria. Avatar pays no fee even to cancel first.
- Cancel more than 24 hours before the trip start time – no cancellation fee.
- Cancel 24 to 2 hours before the trip start time – basic rate
- Cancel less than 2 hours before the trip start time – 30 minutes fare
- Cancel or refuse of video call after the trip start time – One hour fare
11. User Complaint: If a reserved virtual trip fails for a reason other than cancellation, users can complain to appeal the fare payment only within the complaint time limit.
- Poor connection: complain within 10 minutes of the trip start time.
- Avatar does not answer a video call: complain within 30 minutes of the trip start time.
- Avatar’s non-cooperation / Wrong place in the scheduled trip start time / Poor language skill / Equipment issues such as no phone battery: complain within 30 minutes of video call termination.
- Any complaint instantly holds the fare payment for up to 48 hours. We first review both sides’ claims and the video call time record.
- Then, we decide whether to pay the charged fare and notify users of the result by email within 48 hours. No further complaints on the same case are accepted.
- We may request additional data while reviewing your complaint. Help the review process by responding to data requests as quickly as possible.
- Reconnection: You must reconnect within one minute when a video call is lost because of poor communication conditions or by mistake. If a video call disconnection lasts for more than one minute or the app is down, the virtual trip is automatically terminated.
- Trip meter: It calculates the basic and per-minute rates while a video call is connected.
- Additional features of video calling
- You can switch the front/rear camera of your avatar’s smartphone.
- You can instruct the front, rear, left, and right by a directional key.
- You can switch the ID card open/close mode.
- While displaying your ID card on the avatar’s smartphone screen, the camera direction of the avatar’s phone is switched to the front camera taking a selfie.
Avatar Guide
Service procedure
- Search: Search virtual trip requests to your city.
- Accept: Accept a proper trip request that fits your schedule.
- Arrive: You arrive at the reserved spot at least 5 minutes early, and take a selfie for evidence of your arrival.
- Start a video call: All users can start a video call at the scheduled trip start time. Once connected, cooperate with your master for video streaming.
- End a video call: When you end a video call first, inform the master. Then press the call termination button and the reconfirm button.
- Payment: Thirty minutes after ending a video call, the trip fare will be sent to your account.
- Withdraw: To withdraw cash from your account, you need accounts of Paypal or crypto exchanges such as Binance, Upbit, etc.
- Service rating: You can rate the service quality of your master to improve the service and help other users.
- Cancellation: You might cancel the reserved trip at no additional cost. However, low reputations can negatively affect your matching. If the master cancels a trip reservation first, you get 90% of the cancellation fee according to the following criteria.
- Cancel more than 24 hours before the trip start time – no cancellation fee.
- Cancel 24 to 2 hours before the trip start time – basic rate
- Cancel less than 2 hours before the trip start time – 30-minute fare
- Cancel after the scheduled trip start time – One hour fare
- User complaint: If a reserved virtual trip fails for a reason other than cancellation, users can complain to appeal the fare payment only within the time limit.
- Poor connection: complain within 10 minutes of the trip start time.
- Master does not answer a video call: complain within 30 minutes of the trip start time.
- Maser’s improper or illegal instruction: complain within 30 minutes of video call termination.
- Any complaint instantly holds the fare payment for up to 48 hours. We first review both sides’ claims and the video call time record.
- Then, we decide whether to pay the charged fare and notify users of the result by email within 48 hours. No further complaints on the same case are accepted.
- We may request additional data while reviewing your complaint. Help the review process by responding to data requests as quickly as possible.
- Reconnection: You must reconnect within one minute when a video call is lost because of poor communication conditions or by mistake. If a video call disconnection lasts for more than one minute or the app is down, the virtual trip is automatically terminated.
- Additional feature of video calling
- Master can switch the front/rear camera of your smartphone.
- Master can direct the front, rear, left, and right by a directional key.
- Master can switch the ID card open/close mode.
- While displaying your Master’s ID card on your smartphone screen, your camera direction is switched to the front camera taking a selfie.