Patent ID: 6091410
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of enabling precise interaction with one or more objects in a virtual reality (VR) space generated by a computer system comprising the steps of:receiving a user input from a first user to establish a pointing mode of an avatar representing the first user in the VR space;displaying a visual indicator on the first user's viewing device while the pointing mode is established, a location of the visual indicator being responsive to a pointing device of the first user;moving the pointing device, by the first user, to cause the location of the visual indicator on the first user's viewing device to refer to an object in the VR space; andproviding an image of a virtual pointing object in the VR space on at least one other viewing device, wherein the virtual pointing object points from the avatar representing the first user to the location referred to by the visual indicator.