Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems provide cross-experience communication in a virtual environment, including receiving a request from a requesting user in a first virtual experience to form a communication session with a receiving user in a second virtual experience; verifying a permission for the requesting user; in response to successfully verifying the permission: reserving a platform instance to coordinate forming the communication session; notifying the receiving user about the communication session; receiving a notification from the receiving user accepting the communication session; notifying the requesting user that the communication session was accepted; starting a designated data model to host the communication session; and forming the communication session between the requesting user and the receiving user using the designated data model and the platform instance, the designated data model having access to a subset of information in a data model associated with the receiving user relate

Abstract: A computing system includes a touch display and a virtual keyboard visually presented by the touch display. The virtual keyboard includes one or more slider buttons, and each slider button includes a plurality of touch-selectable items. The computing system further includes a touch-detection module configured to recognize which of the plurality of touch-selectable items is being touched, and a visual-feedback module configured to visually indicate that a touch-selectable item is considered to be ready for selection responsive to that touch-selectable item being touched. The computing system also includes a selection module configured to input a touch-selectable item responsive to a touch lifting from that touch-selectable item while the visual-feedback module visually indicates that touch-selectable item is considered to be ready for selection.

Abstract: A computing system includes a touch display and a virtual keyboard visually presented by the touch display. The virtual keyboard includes one or more rows of staggered virtual-touch-input keys. The computing system further includes a touch-to-key assignment module configured to assign a touch directed to the virtual keyboard and recognized by the touch display to a virtual-touch-input key.