Patent ID: 9424688
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F,G06N,G06Q,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for displaying a virtual world in which the avatar of a user of a virtual reality service evolves, said method being operative to use a standard mode for displaying said virtual world, to identify objects visible to the avatar within the displayed virtual world, and, for at least one of said identified objects, to determine whether a relationship exists within the virtual reality service's social network between an owner of said object within the virtual world and the user, wherein the objects are distinct from the avatar, if the relationship exists and an owner of the object within the virtual world is a direct contact of the user in the virtual reality service's social network, to determine a second display mode to apply to said object depending on said relationship wherein the second display mode is different from the standard display mode, and if the relationship exists and the owner of the object is an indirect contact of the user in the virtual reality service's social network, to determine a third display mode different from the standard and second display modes to apply to said object, the display of said object within the virtual world being altered by applying either one of said determined second and third display modes, wherein a resolution used in the standard display mode is lower than a resolution used in the second and third display modes, wherein the resolution of the second display mode is higher than the resolution of the third display mode, wherein an owner of said object is an avatar within the virtual world distinct from a creator of said object and the user, and wherein the indirect contact is a contact of the direct contact in the virtual reality's social network.