Patent ID: 8612363
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: A63F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method, executed by a computing device, of interacting with a virtual environment, the method comprising: accessing physical characteristic data nonvolitionally obtained from a user, the physical characteristic data including a sensor data portion sensed from the user, a demographic data portion pertaining to a demographic of the user and a healthcare information portion pertaining to a health of the user; determining a trustworthiness of the healthcare information; analyzing the sensor data portion, the demographic data portion and the healthcare information portion; inferring a median health status of the user based in part on the analyzing and the trustworthiness; assigning an attribute corresponding to the median health status to an avatar identified for the user; and adjusting, by the computing device, a performance of the avatar within a virtual environment as constrained by the assigned attribute.