Patent ID: 8473852

Claim:
A method for maintaining real world buildings using a virtual world environment comprising: creating one or more virtual buildings each corresponding with a real world building, each virtual building comprises: an exterior; an interior; exterior and interior building equipment; and embedded building attributes; and creating a Virtual Building Operations Center (VBOC) to manage the one or more virtual buildings, the VBOC comprises: one or more specialist avatar consoles, each specialist avatar console corresponds with a specialist avatar activity and has a virtual computing device displaying information pertaining to the specialist avatars' activity; one or more table 3D displays; and one or more vertical displays; and interfacing each of the one or more virtual buildings with their real world building and the VBOC; creating a worker specialist avatar controlled to manage coordination of worker avatars and expert worker avatars according to a predefined responsibility, the worker specialist, expert worker and worker avatars have a first person or a third person Field of View (FOV), can walk or teleport to destinations, talk with other specialist or worker avatars and manipulate objects; and responding to a special condition for the one or more real world buildings from the VBOC; comprising: using a computing device, logging a real world worker responsible for performing real world building maintenance into the VBOC as a worker avatar, including rendering the worker avatar to capture physical motions of the real world worker, and presenting to the real world worker a work assignment pertaining to the special condition; using a computing device, logging a real world expert worker responsible for providing expertise to the real world worker into the VBOC as an expert worker avatar including rendering the expert worker avatar to capture physical motions of the real world expert worker, and presenting to the real world expert worker the work assignment pertaining to the special condition; teleporting the worker avatar and the expert worker avatar from the VBOC to a virtual world work site corresponding to a real world building work site experiencing the special condition; capturing the physical motions of the real world worker at the real world work site using sensors; detecting changes to the real world work site based on signals from real equipment at the real world work site; causing worker avatar motions according to the physical motions of the real world worker, and causing changes to the virtual world work site according to the changes to the real world work site; and providing guidance from the worker specialist avatar and from the expert worker avatar to the real world worker for performing the work assignment, the guidance being based at least in part on the worker avatar motions and the changes to the virtual world work site.