Patent ID: 8910058

Claim:
A method for collaborating work environments within a virtual world, which is outside of a real world, through computer generated avatars and other three dimensional (3D) objects to visualize collaboration activities and allowing for tracking a progress of collaboration activities, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: visually representing collaboration activities; identifying a number and different types of collaboration activities currently occurring in the world; identifying the progress of each collaboration activity; identifying the system or component that the collaboration activity is creating; displaying a 3D replica in the virtual world of the system component in real-time during creation in the real world; rendering a set of avatars corresponding to a set of users involved in the collaboration activities currently occurring in the real world for the system or component, wherein each of the set avatars relocates to the 3D replica in the virtual world of the system or component when each of the set of users becomes involved in the collaboration activities occurring in the real world; and identifying representing, within the virtual universe, any problems or issues identified during activities supporting the collaboration activities.