Virtual world teleportation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChristopher J. Dawson, Vincenzo V. Di Luoffo, Rick A. Hamilton, II, James W. Seaman
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to teleporting avatars between disparate virtual worlds. A system is disclosed that includes a facility for creating a persona profile for an avatar in a first virtual world when the avatar wants to be teleported out of the first virtual world; a facility for transferring persona profiles to and from a disparate virtual world; and a facility for instantiating an inbound avatar based on a received persona profile. Persona profiles may include, e.g., rendering information, trait information, and inventory information.
Claims7
A teleportation system for teleporting avatars between disparate virtual worlds, comprising:
- at least one processing unit;
- a memory associated with the at least one processing unit;
- and
- a teleportation system storable in memory and executable by the at least one processing unit, the teleportation system comprising:
- a system for creating a persona profile for an avatar in a first virtual world;
- a system for transferring persona profiles to and from a disparate virtual world;
- a system for instantiating an inbound avatar in the first virtual world from the disparate virtual world based on a received persona profile of the inbound avatar, wherein the received persona profile of the inbound avatar remains unchanged from a persona profile of an associated avatar in the disparate virtual world, and for disabling the associated avatar in the disparate virtual world;
- a system for analyzing information in the received persona profile of the inbound avatar and automatically selecting a region in the first virtual world to locate the inbound avatar based on the analyzed information in the received persona profile of the inbound avatar;
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- a checking system for granting or denying the inbound avatar access to the first virtual world.
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