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Virtual World Building Operations Center

  • US 20110029897A1
  • Filed: 07/28/2010
  • Published: 02/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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