Patent ID: 9002885
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method to tailor selection of media for playback to a user of a virtual environment, based on monitored activity of the user and media characterizations by other users, the computer-implemented method comprising: outputting a first media file for playback for the user in the virtual environment, wherein the first media file is from a first media source that is part of a virtual world application providing the virtual environment; monitoring activity of the user in the virtual environment, wherein the virtual environment includes a virtual object having a user interface for controlling media playback without requiring use of any media player application; retrieving media characterizations of a plurality of media files from a second media source that is not part of the virtual world application, wherein the media characterizations are input by a plurality of users other than the user and each using a respective media player application of one or more media applications for managing the plurality of media files and the media characterizations, wherein the respective media player application is separate from the virtual world application; and selecting a second media file from the plurality of media files for playback to the user in the virtual environment, by operation of one or more computer processors and based on at least the monitored activity of the user and the retrieved media characterizations, without requiring, from the user, any input specifying the second media file, in order to tailor selection of media for playback to the user in the virtual environment; wherein playback of the plurality of media files is controllable via the user interface of the virtual object and without requiring use of any of the one or more media player applications, in order to reduce incidence of interruption of use the virtual environment.