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APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION AND INTERACTION IN A VIRTUAL MEETING PLACE

  • US 20090300521A1
  • Filed: 05/30/2008
  • Published: 12/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus providing for virtual communication and collaboration, the apparatus comprising:

  • a collaborative virtual environment application executing within a distributed data processing system and accessible to a plurality of users through one or more client systems communicatively connected via a network, the collaborative virtual environment application providing a persistent virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each divided into a set of zones and each having an assigned context, the users of the plurality of users simultaneously and continuously perceiving and interacting with the persistent virtual world through a user interface provided to the plurality of users through the one or more client systems, the collaborative virtual environment providing each user of the plurality of users with a respective avatar representation for navigating and interacting with each other user of the plurality of users and objects within the locations of the persistent virtual world; and

    a navigation module implemented within the collaborative virtual environment application, the navigation module providing a user interface element implemented within the user interface for each user of the plurality of users to specify a respective set of navigation settings, the navigation module automatically directing the avatar representation for each user of the plurality of the users to traverse the set of zones of a respective subset of the set of locations of the persistent virtual world in a particular order of locations and at a particular rate for each location, the navigation module determining the particular order of locations and the particular rate for each location for each user according to the respective set of navigation settings specified by the user.

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