SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SCENES TO A USER

• US 20120212405A1
• Filed: 11/22/2011
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aria Glassworks, Inc. (Dropbox, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Aria Glassworks, Inc. (Dropbox, Inc.)
• Inventors: NEWHOUSE, BENJAMIN ZEIS, MCARDLE, TERRENCE EDWARD
• Application Number:
  US13/302,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20120212405A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A method according to a preferred embodiment can include providing an embeddable interface for a virtual or augmented reality scene, determining a real orientation of a viewer representative of a viewing orientation relative to a projection matrix, and determining a user orientation of a viewer representative of a viewing orientation relative to a nodal point. The method of the preferred embodiment can further include orienting the scene within the embeddable interface and displaying the scene within the embeddable interface on a device.

Claims

1. A method of presenting a scene to a user comprising:

providing an embeddable interface for a virtual or augmented reality scene;

determining a real orientation of a viewer representative of a viewing orientation relative to a projection matrix;

determining a user orientation of a viewer representative of a viewing orientation relative to a nodal point;

orienting the scene within the embeddable interface; and

displaying the scene within the embeddable interface on a device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the embeddable interface comprises a window within a web browser.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the embeddable interface comprises an iframe disposed within a webpage.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a mobile handheld device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a desktop computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising adapting the scene displayable within the embeddable interface in response to a change in one of the real orientation or the user orientation.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a change in one of the real orientation or the user orientation comprises a change detectable by the device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the device comprises a mobile handheld device, and wherein the change detectable by the device comprises a change in a device orientation.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the device orientation comprises an orientation of the device in a three-dimensional external frame of reference determined by the projection matrix.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the device comprises a desktop computing device, and wherein the change detectable by the device comprises a user input.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user input comprises one of:

a keystroke, a click, a verbal command, a touch, or a gesture.