Position-dependent modification of descriptive content in a virtual reality environment

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memory devices communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more memory devices storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform:
• determining a first location associated with a user interface (UI) object in a virtual reality (VR) environment and a second location associated with an additional object in the VR environment;
• determining that the first location is within a threshold distance from the second location;
• determining a previous location associated with the UI object in the VR environment within the threshold distance, the first location having a first timestamp that is subsequent to a previous timestamp of the previous location;
• calculating, based on a location difference between the first location and the previous location, a cumulative motion of the UI object while the UI object is within the threshold distance;
• and
• responsive to determining that the cumulative motion of the UI object while the UI object is within the threshold distance is less than or equal to a threshold amount of motion, modifying the VR environment to output information describing the additional object.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying program code for providing information in a virtual reality (VR) environment, the program code comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• determining a first position associated with a user interface (UI) object in the VR environment and a second position associated with an additional object in the VR environment, wherein the first position and the second position each include a respective object location and a respective object orientation;
• determining that the first position is within a threshold distance from the second position;
• determining a previous position associated with the UI object in the VR environment within the threshold distance, the first position having a first timestamp that is subsequent to a previous timestamp of the previous position;
• calculating, based on a position difference between the first position and the previous position, a cumulative motion of the UI object while the UI object is within the threshold distance;
• and
• responsive to determining that the cumulative motion of the UI object while the UI object is within the threshold distance is less than or equal to a threshold amount of motion, modifying the VR environment to include information describing the additional object.