US 12,327,305 B2 · Safety policy for contact interactions between avatars

Abstract

The present technology pertains to supporting contact interactions between avatars. For example, the present technology supports collisions between a collider and a receiver on avatars and effectuating a resulting effect. In another example, the present technology supports contact interactions that result in secondary motion behaviors from portions of an avatar. Portions of an avatar can be manipulated by forces from colliders that are exerted on the portions of the avatar configured with secondary motion. In addition to supporting interactions between avatars and portions of avatars, the present technology also solves other problems that are collateral to the supporting of contact interactions between avatars. One such problem is one of consent to engage in contact between avatars.

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Dependent claims

A method of determining if avatar contact interactions are permitted, the method comprising:

receiving avatar contact settings for a local avatar and at least one remote avatar in a world instance;
for a pair of avatars in the world instance, determining whether there is mutual consent between the pair of avatars to allow avatar-to-avatar contact interactions;
and
display an indicator associated with the at least one remote avatar indicating an avatar contact interaction status indicating whether the avatar-to-avatar contact interactions are allowed between the local avatar and the at least one remote avatar.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive avatar contact settings for a local avatar and at least one remote avatar in a world instance;
for a pair of avatars in the world instance, determine whether there is mutual consent between the pair of avatars to allow avatar-to-avatar contact interactions;
and
display an indicator associated with the at least one remote avatar indicating an avatar-to-avatar contact interaction status indicating whether the avatar-to-avatar contact interactions are allowed between the local avatar and the at least one remote avatar.

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A computing system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the system to:
receive avatar contact settings for a local avatar and at least one remote avatar in a world instance;
for a pair of avatars in the world instance, determine whether there is mutual consent between the pair of avatars to allow avatar-to-avatar contact interactions that are perceived as a first person contact to take place between the pair of avatars;
and
display an indicator associated with the at least one remote avatar to indicate an avatar contact interaction status indicating whether the avatar-to-avatar contact interactions are allowed between the local avatar and the at least one remote avatar.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Safety policy for contact interactions between avatars

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Abstract

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