Level of detail management within virtual environments

A level of detail management system comprising:

• a computer system including at least one processor and memory, the computer system being programmed to:
• receive, via a distributed message exchange platform, one or more publishing requests to publish one or more media content items, wherein at least one of the media content items is a user graphical representation;
• publish the one or more media content items to at least one portion of a virtual environment, wherein at least one of the published media content items is the user graphical representation;
• measure a distance within the virtual environment between the user graphical representation representing a subscribing client device and the one or more other published media content items;
• receive a subscription request from the subscribing client device to subscribe to the one or more other published content items;
• calculating priority data based on the measured distance, wherein a level of priority of the priority data is inversely proportional to the measured distance;
• adjust a level of detail of a viewing field of the published user graphical representation based on the level of priority;
• and
• send the adjusted level of detail along with the subscribed content item to the subscribing client device via the distributed message exchange platform.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions configured to cause one or more server computers comprising a processor and memory to perform steps comprising:

• receiving, by a distributed message exchange platform distributed across a plurality of server computers of a server computer system, one or more media content items and one or more publishing requests;
• publishing the one or more media content items to at least one portion of a virtual environment, wherein at least one of the published media content items is a user graphical representation;
• measuring a distance within the virtual environment between the published user graphical representation representing a subscribing client device and one or more other published media content items published to the virtual environment;
• receiving a subscription request from the subscribing client device to subscribe to the one or more other published media content items;
• calculating priority data based on the measured distance, wherein a level of priority of the priority data is inversely proportional to the measured distance;
• adjusting a level of detail of a viewing field of the published user graphical representation based on the level of priority;
• and
• sending the adjusted level of detail along with the content item to the subscribing client device via the distributed message exchange platform.