Method. system and apparatus of recording and playing back an experience in a virtual worlds system

Abstract

A recorded experience in a virtual worlds system may be played back by one or more servers instantiating a new instance of a scene using one or more processors of the one or more servers and playing back the recorded experience in the new instance by modeling objects of a recorded initial scene state of the recorded experience in the new instance and updating the recorded initial scene state based on subsequent recorded changes over a time period, a recorded experience file includes the recorded initial scene state and the subsequent recorded changes and is stored in one or more memories of the one or more servers. One or more client devices are in communication with the one or more servers to participate in the new instance.

1 . A method of playing back a recorded experience in a virtual worlds system, comprising:
 instantiating, using one or more processors of a server, a new instance of a scene, the new instance being defined by data stored in memory, at least one client device displaying and participating in the new instance;   retrieving a recorded experience file from the memory, the recorded experience file having been generated by saving an initial scene state and saving subsequent changes and respective times during a time period of the recorded experience;   playing back the recorded experience file by rendering, for display by the at least one client device, objects of the initial scene state in the new instance, including one or more avatars, and rendering updates to the initial scene state based on the subsequent changes over the time period; and   automatically transporting the one or more avatars to a different new instance of the scene, upon occurrence of a threshold event, wherein the threshold event comprises when a maximum capacity of avatars has been reached in the new instance of the scene.