SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PLURALITY OF USERS TO INTERACT WITH AN AUGMENTED OR VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEMS

• US 20150235434A1
• Filed: 05/04/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
• Inventors: Miller, Samuel A., Abovitz, Rony
• Granted Patent: US 10,068,374 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0127 comprising devices increasing the depth of field
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• 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 27/0093 with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30201 Face
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/024 Multi-user, collaborative environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/73 using feature-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/20 Details of the management of multiple sources of image data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 : Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.

Claims

1. A method enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising:

creating a remote avatar for a first user accessing the virtual world through a first user device at a first location;

placing, the remote avatar of the first user, at a real geographical location, such that the first user can experience the real geographical location through the first user device at the first location; and

interacting with a second user accessing the virtual world through a second user device at the real geographical location through the remote avatar placed at the real geographical location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location is different from the real geographical location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location is substantially the same as the real geographical location.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote avatar has a predetermined relationship to a physical object at the real geographical location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote avatar responds to an environmental cue at the real geographical location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a movement of the remote avatar is controlled by the first user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote avatar can interact with a second user at the real geographical location.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote avatar is placed at the real geographical location based at least in part on a permission granted by the second user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a dense digital model, wherein the dense digital model comprises a group of cameras viewing the real geographical location.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising animating the remote avatar based at least in part on the first user'"'"'s interaction with the first user device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the interaction comprises facial recognition analysis.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the interaction comprises voice inflection analysis.