TECHNOLOGY AND PATENTS

Worlds technology is a highly productive and easy-to-use integrated client/server technology suite that provides a development platform to create, distribute, maintain and use multi-user virtual environments of exceptional quality and performance over the Internet or private TCP/IP networks. Worlds Gamma's integration of a user's 2D Web browser (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer or FireFox) into its own application gives Gamma the ability to deliver HTML, audio and video content all within the 3D Worlds Website.  Thus, any popular features that are seen in 2D Websites can be easily integrated into Worlds.

Patent
Worlds has been granted U.S patent 6,219,045 for multi-server technology for 3D applications, which is Worlds’ core technology.  The description of the patent is as follows:

“The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three dimensional, multi-user, interactive virtual world system.  In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users interact in the three-dimensional, computer-generated graphical space where each user executes a client process to view a virtual world from the perspective of that user.  The virtual world shows Avatars representing the other users who are neighbors of the user viewing the virtual world.  In order that the view can be updated to reflect the motion of the remote user's Avatar, motion information is transmitted to a central server process that provides position updates to client processes for neighbors of the user at that client process.  The client process also users an environment database to determine which background objects to render as well as to limit the number of displayable Avatars to a maximum number of Avatars displayable by that client.”