See who's looking at you?

Last year, I remember hearing there was some setting in the SL client that allowed you to see who was looking at you, or had a camera-lock, or whatever. Are they talking about the beacons, where you can see that there's a yellow crosshair where people are looking, but can't tell which crosshair belongs to who? Or is this something different?

its under the advanced tab. and its called "show look at" and "show point at" but it doesnt tell u who it is looking at u. it just lets u know someone is

All it does is let you see where everyone else's camera is pointed at. Like being in a room where everyone has a laser sighting system, like a military sniper. But it's just crosshairs at the focus point. No vector back to the peeper.

Still, it does come in handy. If you are in the sim with one other person, and you are changing inside your house, you know your neighbor is watching if another crosshair shows up on the wall in front of you.

Unless they have alt-cammed onto themselves or the wall in their own house, to fix the pink crosshairs there, then cammed across to your disrobing self next door (But in seriousness, I agree: someone would only do that if they knew the crosshairs would give away their snooping.)

It's possible to discount some of the avatars around you through a process of elimination, because unless they're alt-cammed (and thus fixed) the crosshairs follow the avatar's eye movement. So someone who is dancing will have crosshairs bouncing in time with their dancing, someone who is walking will have similar, and you can tell roughly who is doing what, *as long as they're moving*. But if everyone's standing still, then no.

*Shrugs* I'm always alt-cammed when dancing, so I can enjoy watching the dance. I never stay in Mouselook while in a club.

My mistake. I just tried dancing while alt-cammed and the pink crosshairs still move. So yeah, correction LOL: alt-camming only fixes crosshairs absolutely still when the avatar is standing and not moving (AOs don't count as moving in this case).

So now more people know that they should focus outside the room before the pulling their camera back inside it.

But hmmmmmmm

There is some illegal way of hiding your name floater??

So..
With an avatar that looks like a crosshair, and staying close to the walls, you could spy on people *and* make them fight with their neighbours...

It's also completely circumventable. The indicator is where the camera is anchored. Now how far the camera is away from the anchor. I personally do my best cam work with the thing anchored to my own head. I can still see a whole sim over. (^_^)y

Okay, thanks everyone! I had known about the "Show Looking At" thing, figured it was just that, but wondered if it was something more.