Methods and systems for dynamically representing, within a virtual reality data stream being presented to a user, a proxy object that corresponds to an object in the real-world environment of the user

A method comprising:

• presenting, by a virtual reality system to a user of the virtual reality system, virtual reality media content including representations of a plurality of objects;
• detecting, by the virtual reality system, a characteristic of a real-world environment of the user as the virtual reality media content is presented to the user;
• accessing, by the virtual reality system, data representative of user input provided by the user during a previous virtual reality presentation to the user by the virtual reality system;
• identifying, by the virtual reality system based on the detected characteristic of the real-world environment, a group of actionable real-world objects included in the real-world environment;
• determining, by the virtual reality system, that the actionable real-world objects in the identified group are to be represented in the virtual reality media content by a single proxy object rather than a plurality of separate proxy objects;
• determining, by the virtual reality system based on the data representative of the user input provided by the user during the previous virtual reality presentation, a preference of the user with respect to the group of actionable real-world objects;
• selecting, by the virtual reality system in response to the identifying of the group of actionable real-world objects and in response to the determining that the actionable real-world objects in the identified group are to be represented in the virtual reality media content by the single proxy object and based on the determined preference of the user, a single user-customized proxy object corresponding to the group of actionable real-world objects;
• and
• dynamically integrating, by the virtual reality system in response to the selecting of the single user-customized proxy object and as the virtual reality media content is presented to the user, a representation of the single user-customized proxy object with the representations of the plurality of objects included within the virtual reality media content presented to the user, the single user-customized proxy object configured to facilitate an action by the user with respect to the group of actionable real-world objects as the virtual reality media content is presented to the user.

A virtual reality system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled with the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, direct the processor to
• present, to a user of the virtual reality system, virtual reality media content including representations of a plurality of objects;
• detect a characteristic of a real-world environment of the user as the virtual reality media content is presented to the user;
• identify, based on the detected characteristic of the real-world environment, a group of actionable real-world objects included in the real-world environment;
• determine that the actionable real-world objects in the identified group are to be represented in the virtual reality media content by a single proxy object rather than a plurality of separate proxy objects;
• and
• dynamically integrate, in response to the identifying of the group of actionable real-world objects and based on the determination that the actionable real-world objects in the identified group are to be represented by the single proxy object, the single proxy object with the representations of the plurality of objects included within the virtual reality media content presented to the user, the single proxy object configured to facilitate an action by the user with respect to the group of actionable real-world objects, as the virtual reality media content is presented to the user.