Patent ID: 8631334

Claim:
A method for composing and managing a presentation in a virtual world, the method comprising: arranging a set of slides in a presentation; selecting a location in a portion of a virtual world for displaying the slides and also for attendee avatars viewing the slides; composing movements and gestures of a presenter avatar in coordination with a display of slide content of the slides; presenting the presentation in the location of the virtual world at the location selected for displaying the slides for the attendee avatars placed at the selected location for the attendee avatars while applying the composed movements and gestures of the presenter avatar coordinated with a display of slide content of the slides; specifying different permissible sets of attendee avatar actions for different ones of the slides, so that the permissible sets of attendee avatar actions can vary from slide to slide; and, during presentation of each of the slides, rendering a heads up display (HUD) for each of the attendee avatars including only a specified permissible set of attendee avatar actions for a presented one of the slides.