Presence

Summary:

Provide a mechanism to see availability across media/worlds

Presence

GlennLinden 1198710039|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Presence (online)

Action:
I'm in Virtual World L, and want to talk to Totally VIrtual.  Through some mutual agreement about displaying presence (such as a Friend List), I can see that Totally Virtual is available.

Discussion:
Virtual Worlds are a communication medium. The key element is presence - knowing that people on my contact (Friends) list are available and I can contact them by text or voice. This would enable presence to be visible in both directions - seeing on my cell phone who has their phone on or is available in a virtual world, or from the virtual world, which Friends are available via text or voice channels. As with other services, this requires a way to find the Friend and for the Friend to agree to have presence visible to me.

Standards: presence

Friend List

GlennLinden 1198710078|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Action:
I'm in Virtual World J and want to see if my Friend, Totally Virtual is available for a conversation. I've previously asked Totally Virtual to be my Friend and Totally has agreed.

Discussion:
Ability to either import a Friend List and see who on it is available via some communication service (IM or phone), or to be able to ping a name on the Friend List from a communication service and see if that person is in this World.  This is bi-directional- ability to move the list between the virtual world and other devices. This is related to Use Case: Presence.

Standards: adding, removing names from Friend list; accepting membership on another's Friend list