Patent ID: 9569876
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06T

Claim:
1. A method of managing a computer-implemented animation process for multiple participants, comprising: animating motion of respective ones of modeled avatars in a modeled VRU environment each independently responsive to respective ones of multiple separate command streams provided by separate clients to a host computer; initiating a coordinated motion sequence at the host involving the modeled avatars, wherein the coordinated motion sequence simulates voluntary cooperative movements of the avatars in response to a selected one of the multiple separate command streams; animating the coordinated motion sequence for the modeled avatars to provide animation data, wherein the selected one of the multiple separate command streams simultaneously controls voluntary movements of at least two respective ones of modeled avatars during the coordinated motion sequence that, prior to initiating the coordinated motion sequence were independently controlled by different ones of the multiple separate command streams; and providing animation data for display of an animated scene depicting the coordinated movement.