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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2018
Faro Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US);
FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Abstract
A collaborative virtual reality (VR) online meeting platform that includes a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data defining a virtual space, identifiers of a plurality of meeting participants, and meeting data that includes positions in the virtual space of a plurality of avatars that correspond to meeting participants. The system includes a processor that includes instructions to initiate an online meeting of the plurality of meeting participants. The initiating includes providing an address of the 3D point cloud to each of the meeting participants and transmitting a copy of the 3D point cloud data and meeting data to each of the meeting participants. A current location of each of the avatars in the virtual space is communicated to all of the meeting participants.