INFORMATION CHANNELS IN MMOGS

摘要

Real world news may be received in real time. A real world occurrence may be extracted from the real world news. An attribute of a virtual world may be modified in response to the extracted real world occurrence. A message may be selected based on an attribute relating to a participant in the virtual world. The selected message may be displayed to the participant on a display in the virtual world, along with other messages to other participants selected in the same way. Different participants may therefore see different selected messages on the same display. A display within the virtual world may display at least a portion of real world news in real time. A communication channel may allow only a subset of participants to send messages. The messages may be displayed to other participants in the virtual world.