Method for managing the display or deletion of a user representation in a virtual environment

摘要

A method is provided for implementing and controlling virtual environments, for example “virtual worlds” by which users can for example meet one another virtually and communicate through their respective terminals. For example, the method relates to the display, rendering and/or deletion of the representations of users acting in these virtual environments, at the different terminals in which these representations can be viewed. The method includes the following steps for a given user: determination of a destination zone in the virtual environment in which the representation of the user is to be rendered; determination of an appearance zone in the virtual environment; displaying of the representation in the appearance zone; and automatic movement of the representation from the appearance zone to the destination zone.

主权项

1. A method for managing a display of a representation of a given user of the real world in a virtual environment wherein a plurality of representations of users of the real world is acting, and wherein the method comprises, for the given user, the following successive steps performed by at least one processing device:
determining first a destination area in a virtual space of the virtual environment to which the given user's representation must go, based on an input provided to the at least one processing device by the given user, wherein the given user's representation is not currently displayed in the virtual space; then determining an appearance area for initiating a display of said given user's representation in said virtual space, which is different than said destination area, wherein determining an appearance area selects an appearance area located outside a vision field of the representation of at least one other user of the plurality of users in the virtual space, by taking account of the vision field; then displaying said given user's representation in said appearance area; and then, without the given user's intervention, automatically moving said given user's representation from the appearance area outside the vision field along a path towards the destination area and into the vision field such that the user's representation has a natural appearance into the vision field of the representation of said at least one other user.