Method for augmenting a virtual reality experience

KR Gutierrez, J Duncan, D Griffin… - US Patent 10,500,487, 2019 - Google Patents
A virtual reality (VR) experience augmentation method includes: generating VR
representations, each preprogrammed to simulate a virtual environment with virtually …

Method for grid-based virtual reality attraction system

KR Gutierrez, J Duncan, D Griffin… - US Patent 10,549,184, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A virtual reality (VR) attraction method includes implement ing a kit
corresponding to plans associated with VR repre sentations. The kit includes fixed …

System for providing multi-directional and multi-person walking in virtual reality environments

LS Smoot, CR Sung - US Patent 10,228,758, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A motion system for moving objects in a space, eg, for moving virtual reality
(VR) participants about space used to provide a VR environment. The system includes a …

Avatar teleport controller

CC Moberg, DL Healy, K Emmerich - US Patent 10,159,900, 2018 - Google Patents
A virtual reality (VR) game platform has an input mechanism, software executing on a
processor from a non-transitory medium, and a display screen displaying, under control of …

Path planning for virtual reality locomotion

Q Sun, A Patney, O Shapira, M McGuire… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for
computing a path for a user to move along within a physical space while viewing a virtual …

Method of modeling player position and movement in a virtual reality system

CA Crane, TJ Bannon, DM Donahue… - US Patent …, 2000 - Google Patents
In a virtual reality system (20) an operator perceives being in a virtual reality world (74) of
virtual reality images (62). The system (20) models the relative position and movement of …

Hypercatching in virtual reality (VR) system

GD Niemeyer, MK Pan - US Patent 10,139,899, 2018 - Google Patents
A system designed to provide a dynamic physical interaction for a user during a virtual
reality (VR) experience in a VR experience space. The system includes a VR system having …

System and method for a virtual reality system having a frame buffer that stores a plurality of view points that can be selected and viewed by the user

BA Reichlen, IE Sutherland - US Patent 6,351,261, 2002 - Google Patents
A computer video display system and method is disclosed. The computer video display
system includes a frame buffer for storing a multiplicity of view points of a model to be …

Modifying virtual reality boundaries based on usage

M Bailey, A Daniel, P Jones, R Pilot - US Patent 10,832,477, 2020 - Google Patents
A method and system for modifying virtual reality (VR) boundaries based on usage includes
defining, using a virtual reality system including a computer communicating with head set, a …

Method of and system for facilitating structured block play in a virtual reality environment

J LaCrosse, J Baker - US Patent App. 15/625,014, 2018 - Google Patents
A system and a method for facilitating structured block play in a VR environment that
includes a set of computer-generated images providing a spatial representation of a …