Virtual reality environment based manipulation of multi-layered multi-view interactive digital media representations

A system for generating a multi-view interactive digital media representation in a virtual reality environment comprising:

• obtaining a plurality of images, wherein the plurality of images include at least a portion of overlapping subject matter;
• fusing, via a processor, the plurality of images into a content model, wherein the content model includes a multi-view interactive digital media representation of the object;
• and
• generating, via the processor, a virtual reality environment using the content model;
• wherein the multi-view interactive digital media representation is generated by fusing each object in the plurality of images into a single content model object without using background in the plurality of images, connected together in a three-dimensional spatial graph, wherein the content model is generated directly from the plurality of images without using a 3D polygon model, wherein the content model includes multiple images captured from different perspectives around the object;
• wherein the multi-view interactive digital media representation is configured such that a user can navigate through and within the virtual reality environment to switch between multiple viewpoints of the content model via corresponding physical movements,
• wherein the user can directly rotate the content model while the user is in the virtual reality environment against a static context model background and walk around the object while the user is in the virtual reality environment, wherein walking around the object includes rotating the content model in conjunction with a rotating context model background;
• associating a tag with a region in the content model, wherein region and the associated tag is automatically propagated into a plurality of views of the content model.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to execute a method for generating a multi-view interactive digital media representation in a virtual reality environment, the method comprising:

• obtaining a plurality of images, wherein the plurality of images include at least a portion of overlapping subject matter;
• fusing, via a processor, the plurality of images into a content model, wherein the content model includes a multi-view interactive digital media representation of the object;
• and
• generating, via the processor, a virtual reality environment using the content model;
• wherein the multi-view interactive digital media representation is generated by fusing each object in the plurality of images into a single content model object without using background in the plurality of images, connected together in a three-dimensional spatial graph, wherein the content model is generated directly from the plurality of images without using a 3D polygon model, wherein the content model includes multiple images captured from different perspectives around the object;
• wherein the multi-view interactive digital media representation is configured such that a user can navigate through and within the virtual reality environment to switch between multiple viewpoints of the content model via corresponding physical movements,
• wherein the user can directly rotate the content model while the user is in the virtual reality environment against a static context model background and walk around the object while the user is in the virtual reality environment, wherein walking around the object includes rotating the content model in conjunction with a rotating context model background;
• associating a tag with a region in the content model, wherein region and the associated tag is automatically propagated into a plurality of views of the content model.