Systems and methods for providing spatial awareness in virtual reality

One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

• render, for one or more displays of a virtual reality (VR) display device, a first output image of a VR environment based on a field of view of a user, wherein the VR environment comprises a virtual boundary corresponding to a real-world environment;
• determine whether the user is approaching within a first threshold distance of the virtual boundary;
• determine, responsive to the user approaching within the first threshold distance of the virtual boundary, a direction of movement and the field of view of the user;
• access one or more images of the real-world environment captured by cameras of the VR display device;
• and
• render, for the one or more displays of the VR display device, a second output image comprising a portion of the VR environment and a portion of a passthrough view of the real-world environment based on the accessed images, wherein the portion of the passthrough view is based on the determined direction of movement and the field of view of the user.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
• render, for one or more displays of a virtual reality (VR) display device, a first output image of a VR environment based on a field of view of a user, wherein the VR environment comprises a virtual boundary corresponding to a real-world environment;
• determine whether the user is approaching within a first threshold distance of the virtual boundary;
• determine, responsive to the user approaching within the first threshold distance of the virtual boundary, a direction of movement and the field of view of the user;
• access one or more images of the real-world environment captured by cameras of the VR display device;
• and
• render, for the one or more displays of the VR display device, a second output image comprising a portion of the VR environment and a portion of a passthrough view of the real-world environment based on the accessed images, wherein the portion of the passthrough view is based on the determined direction of movement and the field of view of the user.