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AssigneeWorlds Inc.
InventorsDave LEAHY, Judith Challinger, B. Thomas Adler, S. Mitra Ardon
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The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user. The virtual world shows avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual word. In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's avatars, motion information is transmitted to a central server process which provides positions updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process. The client process also uses an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the movement of the user's avatar.
A client computer configured to enable a first user controlling a first avatar in a virtual space to perform actions in the virtual space, the virtual space comprising a plurality of avatars of a plurality of other users, each user of the plurality of other users being associated with an avatar representing said each user in the virtual space, the first user being associated with the first avatar, the client computer comprising:
A method for a first user at a client computer controlling a first avatar of a virtual space to act in the virtual space, the virtual space comprising a plurality of avatars of a plurality of other users, each user of the plurality of other users being associated with an avatar of the plurality of avatars representing said each user in the virtual space, the first user being associated with the first avatar, the virtual space further comprising the first avatar, the method comprising steps of:
An article of manufacture comprising a machine readable memory device storing computer code for performing a method for a first user controlling a first avatar of a virtual space to act in the virtual space, the virtual space comprising a plurality of avatars of a plurality of other users, each user of the plurality of other users being associated with an avatar representing said each user in the virtual space, the first user being associated with the first avatar, the method comprising steps of:
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