Visual identifiers for virtual world avatars

A computer implemented method for executing a network application, the network application defined to render a virtual environment, the virtual environment being depicted by computer graphics, comprising:

• (a) generating an animated user within the virtual environment;
• (b) generating a facility, the facility generated within the virtual environment and being rendered as an interactive virtual representation of a body alteration business;
• (c) detecting movement of the animated user into a facility;
• (d) providing interaction between a facility employee and the animated user, the facility employee being an application controlled avatar, and the interactions rendered from a perspective of the animated user, the interactions including;
• (i) requesting submission of a proposed body alteration;
• (ii) receiving the proposed body alteration;
• (iii) sending the proposed body alteration to a review process;
• (iv) animating the application of an approved body alteration, the animation rendered from a perspective of the animated user observing the application of the body alteration in substantially real-time.

Computer readable media including program instructions for applying body modifications to an avatar in a virtual world environment, comprising:

• (a) program instructions for detecting movement of the avatar into a facility, the facility being a virtual world representation of a body modification facility;
• (b) program instruction for requesting submission of a body modification to be applied to the avatar;
• (c) program instruction for receiving the submission of the body modification, the submission being a graphic illustration of the body modification;
• (d) program instruction for sending the submission of the body modification to a review process, the review process being conducted to monitor body modifications within the virtual world environment;
• (e) program instruction for applying the body modification to the avatar once the body modification has passed the review process.