Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Hidehisa Onai

Akio Ohba

Masakazu Suzuoki

Takahiro Fujii

Shuji Hiramatsu

Shigeru Enomoto

Tomokazu Kake

Muneki Shimada

Kenjiro Komaki

Toyoshi Okada

Yousuke Kimoto

Hiromasa Horie

Keiso Shimakawa

Yuta Kimura

A display apparatus including a communication line connected to a network, an information acquisition device for acquiring in real time at least information relating to a predetermined site on the network via the communication line, the communication line being held by a communication line holding device. The display apparatus includes a display control device for displaying in real time information relating to a plurality of sites acquired by the information acquisition device, and forming symbols corresponding to the plurality of sites, displaying the symbols three-dimensionally in a contrastable state from each other. The information acquired by the information acquisition device is displayed will a symbol, which corresponds to the site, and the information acquisition device acquires at least one of or a plurality of pieces of information indicating congestion status, update status, response, type, popularity, cost, and links of each site, and congestion status of the network.

Display apparatus for accessing desired web site

Objects which are created in conformity with the data format of objects to be handled in a virtual world are offered to users on the terminal computers of the users independently of the virtual world. The users transmit the offered objects to a server computer which generates the virtual world, while the server computer stores these objects in association with the operators. Since these objects are recorded in a format which can be interpreted by the server computer for generating the virtual world, they can be handled in the virtual world in the same manner as the other objects which have been defined in the virtual world beforehand. Thus, the users are permitted to use in the virtual world objects which are different from the objects which were defined in the virtual world beforehand.

Virtual world system, server computer and information processor

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Tokyo, Japan

Hidehisa Onai