METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MERCHANT-SUPPLIED INFORMATION WITH A FIXED REFERENCE POINT IN A VIRTUAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD

摘要

A system, method and apparatus are provided for associating interactive virtual advertisements and/or merchant-supplied commercial information with one or more reference points plotted within a geolocated, three-dimensional, virtual world stored in a computer-readable database. In some embodiments, this virtual world comprises panoramic images aligned using Google® Photo Sphere technology within applications such as Google® Maps Business View.