SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING VIRTUAL CONVERSATION BEING PARTICIPATION POSSIBLE BY USERS IN SHARED VIRTUAL SPACE CONSTRUCTED AND PROVIDED ON COMPUTER NETWORK AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit a plurality of users to simultaneously participate in communication and to execute it in real-time in a virtual world which is constructed on a computer network.;SOLUTION: A remote communication infrastructure such as a portable telephone, a PHS or a public telephone, etc., is introduced to a shared virtual space. Each avatar executes a conversation by using the PHS without locating an opposite party regardless of the inside/outside of one's own aura, i.e., the respective users execute communication in the virtual world over a boundary being the single shared virtual world. The PHS held by the avatar communicates with the PHS in another virtual world or the PHS in a real world.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO