System and method for generating a limitless path in virtual reality environment for continuous locomotion

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing the one or more sequence of instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes to perform a method for generating a continuous path in a virtual reality environment (VR) for a limitless locomotion within a real physical space using a Head-Mounted-Display (HMD) device associated with a user, said method comprising:

• determining a first line segment (L0) between an initial point (P0) to a second point (P1) by analyzing input data that corresponds to an initial path travelled by the user in the real physical space from the initial point (P0), wherein the input data is obtained from the HMD device associated with the user, wherein the line segment (Li) is determined by an equation Li=(Pi)*(Pi+1) by including a value of i equal to 0, where ‘i’ is in a range of natural numbers comprising 0 to n−1 and ‘—’ is an overhead bar that symbolises the line segment (Li) of a predetermined length;
• detecting a boundary of the VR environment using a third point (P2) to generate a second line segment (L2) from an end of the first line segment (L0) by projecting a plurality of rays from the second point (P1) in different directions using a shift angle, wherein the shift angle is an angle between the first line segment of the initial path and the second line segment (L2) of an upcoming path;
• generating a third line segment (L3) using the equation by including the value of i equal to 3, and adding the third line segment (L3) to the end of the second line segment (L2) within the boundary when the user moves forward on the initial path at a certain distance and the third line segment (L3) is added in a direction at an angle of the shift angle to the direction of the third line segment (L3);
• generating an updated path by adding the third line segment (L3) in the direction of the shift angle to the direction of the second line segment;
• configuring to output the updated path as a list of two-dimensional points to render the updated path into the virtual reality environment using environmental properties;
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• removing the first line segment (L0) from the updated path when the user moves forward to cover half of the initial path in the virtual reality environment, thereby continuously generating new line segments (L4, L5, L6, . . . Ln) and, updating the initial path by adding each new line segment at the end of the initial path and removing a previous line segment from beginning of the initial path to enable the continuous locomotion in the virtual reality environment through the HMD device associated with the user.

A system for generating a continuous path in a virtual reality environment (VR) for a limitless locomotion within a real physical space using a Head-Mounted-Display (HMD) device associated with a user, the system comprising:

• a device processor;
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• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by the device processor, causes:
• determine a first line segment (L0) between an initial point (P0) to a second point (P1) by analyzing input data that corresponds to an initial path travelled by the user in the real physical space from the initial point (P0), wherein the input data is obtained from the HMD device associated with the user, wherein the line segment (Li) is determined by an equation Li=(Pi)*(Pi+1) by including a value of i equal to 0, where ‘i’ is in a range of natural numbers comprising 0 to n−1 and ‘—’ is an overhead bar that symbolises the line segment (Li) of a predetermined length;
• detect a boundary of the VR environment using a third point (P2) to generate a second line segment (L2) from an end of the first line segment (L0) by projecting a plurality of rays from the second point (P1) in different directions using a shift angle, wherein the shift angle is an angle between the first line segment of the initial path and the second line segment (L2) of an upcoming path;
• generate a third line segment (L3) using the equation Li=(Pi)*(Pi+1) by including the value of i equal to 3, and adding the third line segment (L3) to the end of the second line segment (L2) within the boundary when the user moves forward on the initial path at a certain distance and the third line segment (L3) is added in a direction at an angle of the shift angle to the direction of the third line segment (L3);
• generate an updated path by adding the third line segment (L3) in the direction of the shift angle to the direction of the second line segment;
• configure to output the updated path as a list of two-dimensional points to render the updated path into the virtual reality environment using environmental properties;
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• remove the first line segment (L0) from the updated path when the user moves forward to cover half of the initial path in the virtual reality environment, thereby continuously generating new line segments (L4, L5, L6, . . . Ln) and, updating the initial path by adding each new line segment at the end of the initial path and removing a previous line segment from beginning of the initial path to enable the continuous locomotion in the virtual reality environment through the HMD device associated to the user.