Methods and systems for providing shortcuts for fast load when moving between scenes in virtual reality

A method, comprising:

• receiving a selection of an interactive application for user interaction, the selection causing content of a virtual scene of the interactive application to be provided for rendering on a head mounted display (HMD) worn by a user, the content of the virtual scene includes visual options that the user can interact with for accessing additional virtual scenes of the interactive application;
• detecting interactivity of the user in the virtual scene during a current interactive session, the detected interactivity processed to identify predicted interaction, by the user, with a specific one of the visual options in the virtual scene, the processing of the interactivity continues during the current interactive session while the user interacts within the virtual scene and includes evaluating interactive indicators identified from the interactivity of the user to determine when one or more of the interactive indicators directed toward the specific one of the visual option reaches a pre-defined threshold predicting imminent selection of the specific visual option, the evaluation used to gauge expressed interest of the user toward the specific visual option without requiring selection of the specific visual option,
• wherein evaluating includes,
• assigning a weight for each interactive indicator identified from the interactivity;
• cumulating the weight of each of the interactive indicators in the virtual scene over time;
• and
• determining when the cumulating weight of the one or more interactive indicators directed toward the specific one of the visual options reaches the pre-defined threshold;
• pre-loading content of a second virtual scene associated with the specific visual option that was predicted to be imminently selected based on achieving the pre-defined threshold, wherein the pre-loading caches the content for the second virtual scene without executing said second virtual scene;
• and
• executing the second virtual scene, upon detecting selection of the specific visual option by the user, using the pre-loaded cached content, so as to enable full rendering of the second virtual scene for interactivity by the user,
• wherein the virtual scene and the second virtual scene are part of the interactive application, and wherein operations of the method are performed by a processor.