Steelcase Inc.

Nicolas De Benoist

Mark A Baloga

Paul Noll

Francis Gerard Graziano

Terry D West

Terry West

A system for use with at least one affordance in space, the affordance including at least one controllable operating characteristic, the system for controlling the operating characteristic and comprising a gadget including a housing, an output device, at least a first sensor for sensing the gadget in space and generating sensed information, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving sensed information from the at least a first sensor, using the sensed information to determine the location and orientation of the gadget in space, using the location and orientation of the gadget in space to identify at least one target object in a targeted juxtaposition with respect to the gadget and controlling the output device to indicate that at least one target object has been targeted.

Affordance control system and method

A system and method for creating a virtual world conferencing experience wherein a first set of real world emissive surfaces and content thereon is replicated on virtual world emissive surfaces where the virtual world emissive surfaces are juxtaposed in a virtual world instance at locations and in orientations that replicate the juxtapositions in the real world arrangement and where the virtual world instance is presented on a second set of real world emissive surfaces at a virtual world workstation where the second set of emissive surfaces are arranged differently than the first set of real world surfaces.

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Paris, France

Nicolas De Benoist