Patent ID: 8589792

Claim:
A method, comprising: modeling, in a computer memory, multiple parallel instances of a multi-dimensional virtual reality space, each of the plurality of parallel instances replicating the multi-dimensional virtual reality space; assigning ones of a plurality of modeled multi-dimensional avatars within the computer memory so that each of the plurality of avatars populates a respective one of the parallel instances and each of the plurality of parallel instances is populated by a unique subset of the plurality of avatars, wherein the assigning limits a total number of the plurality of avatars in each of the unique subsets; and modeling actions of the plurality of avatars populating different ones of the parallel instances in response to input from respective corresponding ones of a plurality of client devices to provide virtual-reality data in the computer memory, the virtual-reality data configured to enable the client devices to output an animated display of a corresponding one of the parallel instances and avatars assigned thereto.