Virtual World Building Operations Center
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1. A method for controlling and maintaining real world buildings through a virtual world environment comprising:
- creating one or more virtual buildings each corresponding with a real world building, each virtual building comprises;
an exterior;
an interior;
exterior and interior building equipment; and
embedded building attributes; and
creating a Virtual Building Operations Center (VBOC) to manage the one or more virtual buildings, the VBOC comprises;
one or more specialist avatar consoles, each specialist avatar console corresponds with a specialist avatar activity and has a virtual computing device displaying information pertaining to the specialist avatars'"'"' activity;
one or more table 3D displays; and
one or more vertical displays; and
interfacing each of the one or more virtual buildings with their real world building and the VBOC;
creating specialist avatars and one or more worker avatars, wherein specialist avatars manage building operations according to a predefined responsibility and worker avatars mimic real world workers responsible for performing real world building equipment maintenance and repair, the specialist and worker avatars have a first person or a third person Field of View (FOV), can walk or teleport to destinations, talk with other specialist or worker avatars and manipulate objects;
controlling the one or more real world building operations from the VBOC; and
responding to special conditions for the one or more real world buildings from the VBOC.
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Abstract
Methods and systems are described that allow coordinated users to employ avatars to observe and control a plurality of buildings—their building support systems and functions from a virtual world environment. Embodiments coordinate building supervisory personnel (specialists), building monitoring and control equipment, and repair (worker) personnel in a virtual world that is controlled by specialist avatars. Operations personnel perform building operation decisions in response to current situations in a virtual world using their specialist avatars.
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1. A method for controlling and maintaining real world buildings through a virtual world environment comprising:
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creating one or more virtual buildings each corresponding with a real world building, each virtual building comprises; an exterior; an interior; exterior and interior building equipment; and embedded building attributes; and creating a Virtual Building Operations Center (VBOC) to manage the one or more virtual buildings, the VBOC comprises; one or more specialist avatar consoles, each specialist avatar console corresponds with a specialist avatar activity and has a virtual computing device displaying information pertaining to the specialist avatars'"'"' activity; one or more table 3D displays; and one or more vertical displays; and interfacing each of the one or more virtual buildings with their real world building and the VBOC; creating specialist avatars and one or more worker avatars, wherein specialist avatars manage building operations according to a predefined responsibility and worker avatars mimic real world workers responsible for performing real world building equipment maintenance and repair, the specialist and worker avatars have a first person or a third person Field of View (FOV), can walk or teleport to destinations, talk with other specialist or worker avatars and manipulate objects; controlling the one or more real world building operations from the VBOC; and responding to special conditions for the one or more real world buildings from the VBOC. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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- 20. The method according to 19 further comprising selecting one or more real world workers by the worker specialist avatar and contacting the selected one or more real world workers via telephony, email or instant message.
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