System and method for presenting virtual reality content to a user

• US 10,659,748 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2019
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mindshow, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Visionary VR, Inc.
• Inventors: Ross, Jonathan Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Mishawn N.
• Application Number:
  US16/516,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20190342535A1
• Time in Patent Office: 306 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0118 comprising devices for improving the contrast of the display / brillance control visibility
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0141 characterised by the informative content of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/006 with video camera or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/7491 of head mounted projectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9305 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/99 dummy group

Abstract

This disclosure describes a system configured to present primary and secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content to a user. Primary virtual reality content may be displayed to a user, and, responsive to the user turning his view away from the primary virtual reality content, a sensory cue is provided to the user that indicates to the user that his view is no longer directed toward the primary virtual reality content, and secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content may be displayed to the user. Primary virtual reality content may resume when the user returns his view to the primary virtual reality content. Primary virtual reality content may be adjusted based on a user'"'"'s interaction with the secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content. Secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content may be adjusted based on a user'"'"'s progression through the primary virtual reality content, or interaction with the primary virtual reality content.

Claims

1. A system for presenting content to a user, the system comprising:

one or more sensors that generate output signals conveying information related to a view direction of the user, the view direction of the user corresponding to a physical direction toward which the gaze of the user is directed;

a display that presents the content to the user, wherein presentation of the content via the display visually simulates virtual objects superimposed within a real world view of the physical space determined by the view direction of the user via the display, wherein the view direction toward which the gaze of the user is directed corresponds to an orientation of the display, and wherein the content includes multiple fields that are viewable and fixed spatially with respect to the physical space and the positions of the fields in the virtual space are independent of the view direction of the user, the multiple fields including a first viewable field and a second viewable field; and

one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to;

determine the view direction of the user based on the output signals;

identify a change in the view direction of the user from the first viewable field to the second viewable field based on the output signals;

cause a change in one or more of the rhythm and/or pace of the content via the display responsive to identifying the change in the view direction of the user; and

cause the display to provide a sensory cue to the user responsive to identifying the change in the view direction of the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are configured to provide the sensory cue responsive to the view direction moving across a field boundary between the first viewable field and the second viewable field.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are configured to facilitate adjustment of the first viewable field, the second viewable field, and/or the field boundary by the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are further configured to cause the display to pause the presentation of a portion of the content responsive to identifying the change in view direction.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are further configured to facilitate:

interaction between the user and the content.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are further configured to adjust the content to be presented to the user in the future based on the interaction between the user and the content.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are further configured to adjust the content to be presented to the user in the future based on one or more of the interaction between the user and the content, or a progression of the user through the content.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the display comprises augmented reality glasses worn by the user.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more physical computer processors are configured to cause the display to stop presenting the content to the user responsive to the user removing the augmented reality glasses from his head and/or resume presenting the content responsive to the user replacing the augmented reality glasses on his head.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the content includes a movie.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the content includes interactive content associated with the movie.

12. A method for presenting content to a user, the method comprising:

generating output signals conveying information related to a view direction of the user, the view direction of the user corresponding to a physical direction toward which a gaze of the user is directed and to an orientation of a display;

determining the view direction of the user based on the output signals;

presenting the content to the user via the display, wherein presentation of the content via the display visually simulates virtual objects superimposed within a real world view of the physical space determined by the view direction of the user via the display, wherein the content includes multiple fields that are viewable and fixed spatially with respect to the physical space and the positions of the fields in the virtual space are independent of the view direction of the user, the multiple fields including a first viewable field and a second viewable field;

determining the view direction of the user based on the output signals;

identifying a change in the view direction of the user from the first viewable field to the second viewable field based on the output signals;

causing a change in one or more of the rhythm and/or pace of the content via the display responsive to identifying the change in the view direction of the user; and

causing the display to provide a sensory cue to the user responsive to identifying the change in the view direction of the user.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing the sensory cue responsive to the view direction moving across a field boundary between the first viewable field and the second viewable field.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising facilitating adjustment of the first viewable field, the second viewable field, and/or the field boundary by the user.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising causing the display to pause the presentation of a portion of the content responsive to identifying the change in view direction.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising facilitating interaction between the user and the content.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising adjusting the content to be presented to the user in the future based on the interaction between the user and the content.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising adjusting the content to be presented to the user in the future based on one or more of the interaction between the user and the content, or a progression of the user through the content.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the display comprises augmented reality glasses worn by the user.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising causing the display to stop presenting the content to the user responsive to the user removing the augmented reality glasses from his head and/or resume presenting the content responsive to the user replacing the augmented reality glasses on his head.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the content includes a movie.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the content includes interactive content associated with the movie.