METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR MULTIMEDIA DISPLAY IN VIRTUAL SPACE, VIRTUAL SPACE MANAGEMENT SERVER, MULTIMEDIA DISPLAY PROGRAM IN VIRTUAL SPACE AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THE SAME PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To synchronously display a plurality of media in a virtual space shared by two or more users, and to allow those users to share an operation to those media. SOLUTION: A virtual space management server 2 transmits to individual user terminals 4 a plurality of pieces of media information including media synchronizing information including the difference between the time of those user terminals 4 and its own time. Those user terminals 4 acquire a plurality of media from a media distributing server 3 according to the media information and its media synchronizing information, and display those media in parallel according to respective timings in which they should be displayed by taking the time of the virtual space management server 2 as a reference. The virtual space management server 2 generates operation synchronizing information to the media on the basis of operation information performed to those media by a certain user terminal 4, and distribute the generated operation synchronizing information to the user terminals 4 sharing the virtual space. The individual user terminals 4 operate those media according to the operation synchronizing information and the operation information, and re-display those media according to the timings in which they should be displayed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO