Systems and methods for using reduced hops to generate an augmented virtual reality scene within a head mounted system

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a user input circuit of a video game controller, a selection, from a user, during a play of a video game to generate input data;
• generating, by a communications circuit integrated in the video game controller, data packets based on the input data for communicating the data packets to a game cloud system without using an external computer between the video game controller and the computer network, wherein the input data is configured to be processed by the game cloud system to generate game state data for interactive media that is encoded to produce a stream of compressed frames;
• and
• receiving, by a display device, the stream of compressed frames via the computer network for displaying the interactive media.

A system comprising:

• a display device;
• and
• a video game controller configured to be held by a user during a play of a video game, the video game controller including:
• a user input circuit configured to receive a selection, from the user, during the play of the video game and generate input data based on the selection;
• and
• a communications circuit integrated in the video game controller and interfaced with the user input circuit, wherein the communications circuit is configured to generate data packets for communicating the input data to a game cloud system without using an external computer between the video game controller and a computer network, wherein the input data is configured to be processed by the game cloud system to generate game state data for interactive media that is encoded to produce a stream of compressed frames, wherein the display device is configured to receive the stream of compressed frames via the computer network and decode the stream of compressed frames to display the interactive media.