| 摘要 |
A system and method enhanced collaboration through teleportation or transition. A system used to moderate an enhanced collaboration environment for at least a set of participants, comprising a server (310, Figure 3) for facilitating a 2-D federated collaboration environment (340, Figure 3) for the at least one set of participants; a server (320, Figure 3) for facilitating a 3-D virtual collaboration environment (350, Figure 3) for the at least one selected set of participants; and a gateway server (315, Figure 3) for facilitating teleportation or transition of at least two participants of the at least one set of participants from the 2-D federated collaboration environment to form a teleported collaboration group in the 3-D virtual collaboration environment. The 3-D virtual collaboration environment may be a virtual world wherein the users are represented by avatars which can interact. Teleportation/transition services may be launched in the federated 2-D server 504, participants may be selected for teleportation and well as a meeting location for the teleportation 508, the federation server may further launch gateway instances to every selected participant 512 and the 3-D server may be instructed to take the selected participants to the meeting location and begin the 3-D virtual collaboration environment/session 522, 530. Collaboration embodiments are wide and examples include document or media sharing or exchange, group chat/discussion. The 3-D virtual world is not constrained by the physical limitations of the hardware of each individual user and may be presented as room with a wide range of facilities depending on the particular application. One particular example is transition between a Google Wave (RTM), 2-D, environment to a Web.alive (now Avayalive), 3-D, environment.
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