Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Three-dimension
Patent
1996-07-11
1999-09-21
Jankus, Almis R.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Three-dimension
G06T 1500
Patent
active
059560380
ABSTRACT:
A system and method of providing a virtual reality space that can be shared by unspecified users world-wide by the steps of composing, when a Universal Resource Locator (URL) is transmitted from a client terminal via a network, a three-dimensional virtual reality space of only basic objects of which basic states do not change and sending the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a shared server terminal from an information server and a mapping server to the transmitting client terminal. When the client terminal accesses the shared server based on the received IP address, information associated with avatars (update objects) representing users of other client terminals is transmitted from the shared server, displaying the virtual reality space reflecting the avatars on the client terminal. Consequently, the three-dimensional virtual reality space can be shared without changing the existing Internet.
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Jankus Almis R.
Sony Corporation
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