Virtual path display
OwnerAnthony Mark Jones, Jessica A. F. Jones +1inventors
InventorsAnthony Mark Jones, Jessica A. F. Jones, Bruce A. Young
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Abstract
A computer system provides directional guidance to a user wearing a head-mounted display (HMD). This is accomplished by obtaining a path through real-world space and presenting multiple virtual path indicators to the user on the head-mounted display. The virtual path indicators are overlaid on a view of a portion of the real-world space and direct the user to follow the path through real-world space.
Claims20
A method to provide directional guidance to a user wearing a head-mounted display (HMD), the method comprising:
- obtaining a path from a current real-world position of at least a body part of the user to a different real-world position through real-world space;
- obtaining a view of a portion of the real-world space including at least some of the path, the view of the portion of the real-world space having a correct perspective from a current real-world position of the HMD;
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- simultaneously presenting a plurality of virtual path indicators to the user on the HMD, overlaid on the view of the portion of the real-world space, to direct the user to follow the path, the plurality of virtual path indicators including a first virtual barrier object presented on a first side of the path and a second virtual barrier object presented on a second side of the path opposite the first side.
An article of manufacture comprising a tangible medium, that is not a transitory propagating signal, encoding computer-readable instructions that, when applied to a computer system, instruct the computer system to perform a method comprising:
- obtaining a path from a current real-world position of at least a body part of the user to a different real-world position through real-world space;
- obtaining a view of a portion of the real-world space including at least some of the path, the view of the portion of the real-world space having a correct perspective from a current real-world position of the HMD;
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- simultaneously presenting a plurality of virtual path indicators to the user on the HMD, overlaid on the view of the portion of the real-world space, to direct the user to follow the path, the plurality of virtual path indicators including a first virtual barrier object presented on a first side of the path and a second virtual barrier object presented on a second side of the path opposite the first side.
A head-mounted display (HMD) comprising:
- a display;
- a structure, coupled to the display and adapted to position the display in a field-of-view (FOV) of the user;
- a processor, coupled to the display, the processor configured to:
- obtain a path from a current real-world position of at least a body part of the user to a different real-world position through real-world space;
- obtain a view of a portion of the real-world space including at least some of the path, the view of the portion of the real-world space having a correct perspective from a current real-world position of the HMD;
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- simultaneously present a plurality of virtual path indicators to the user on the HMD, overlaid on the view of the portion of the real-world space, to direct the user to follow the path, the plurality of virtual path indicators including a first virtual barrier object presented on a first side of the path and a second virtual barrier object presented on a second side of the path opposite the first side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.