Ordering an avatar in a virtual environment
OwnerFabrice BOUDIN, Arnaud BRUNinventors
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Abstract
A method for controlling an avatar in a virtual environment is described. In this method, in the absence of human intervention to animate the avatar via a control interface, a control device, triggers at least one action of the avatar in the virtual environment. This action is selected from among a first group of actions learned beforehand during a period of time in which the avatar or another avatar was animated via a control interface by at least one user in said virtual environment, or among a second group of actions digitally modelled based on learning actions executed by at least one user in a real environment corresponding to the virtual environment.
Claims9
A method for controlling an avatar in a virtual environment, wherein in the absence of human intervention to animate the avatar via a control interface, the method comprising, in a control device, triggering at least one action of the avatar in the virtual environment, said at least one action being selected:
- among a first plurality of actions learned beforehand during a period of time in which the avatar or another avatar was animated by at least one user in said virtual environment, via a control interface, or
- among a second plurality of actions digitally modeled based on learning actions executed by at least one user in a real environment corresponding to the virtual environment.
A device for controlling an avatar in a virtual environment, the device configured to trigger, in the absence of human intervention to animate the avatar via a control interface, at least one action of the avatar in the virtual environment, said at least one action being selected:
- among a first plurality of actions learned beforehand during a period of time in which the avatar or another avatar was animated by at least one user in said virtual environment, via a control interface, or
- among a second plurality of actions digitally modeled based on learning actions executed by at least one user in a real environment corresponding to the virtual environment.
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