Patent ID: 8495505

Claim:
A method for perspective based tagging and visualization of avatars in a virtual world, comprising: determining if a physical position of any avatars is within a predetermined proximity range that encompasses a user's avatar in the virtual world; in response to the physical position of any avatars being within the predetermined proximity range of the user's avatar, allowing the user to enter information to tag any of the any avatars with tagged information; automatically presenting the tagged information to the user when any of the any avatars that have been previously tagged by the user are within the predetermined proximity range of the user's avatar, wherein the tagged information is only presented to the user and not to users of the any avatars; and allowing the user to turn off automatically presenting the tagged information for a selected previously tagged one or more of the any avatars even if the selected previously tagged one or more of the any avatars is within the predetermined proximity range of the user's avatar.