Avatar wearing a clickable link
The title says it all. You know those folks promoting Virtual Reality (or Metaverse)? Think of all those sites with avatars that move. Right now, it is as though we were back in 1989 when HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and coders were writing their first sites. But unlike 1989, today’s VR sites do not show avatars going from 1 site to another. The problem is the lack of VR compatibility between sites. What we see of VR today is a pale imitation of what it can be.
A VR site might link to another VR site. The link can be on a virtual screen in the first site. Your avatar goes up to it and presses a button on the screen, you go to the second site. If there are other avatars near you, then all might go to the other site. Sound familiar? This is the transporter room scenario in Star Trek.
What’s the problem? Look at the scenario. The screen to jump between sites is at a fixed location in the first site. If you want to jump from a different place in the first site, well you can’t. Not until the first site puts another screen at that place. Maybe the first site removes the screen in the first location. Or it makes another screen at the second place. The point is that the first site controls not just the exits from itself, but also the entrances to other sites.
There is a different and much simpler way, defined by my 25th patent, “Metaverse…
