Real-world awareness for virtual reality

A system comprising:

• a processing system;
• a storage system;
• and
• instructions for supporting real-world awareness stored on the storage system that, when executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to:
• determine that a virtual reality application is in use;
• in response to determining that the virtual reality application is in use, begin monitoring for external signals by at least accessing an available sensor of a computing device;
• detect at least one external signal while monitoring for the external signals;
• in response to detecting the at least one external signal, determine a level of notification for an interruption notification of the virtual reality application based on the at least one external signal;
• receive context of the virtual reality application;
• determine a type for the interruption notification of the virtual reality application based on the determined level of notification and the context of the virtual reality application;
• and
• provide the interruption notification to the virtual reality application based on the determined type.

One or more computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, direct the processor to at least:

• determine that a virtual reality application is in use;
• in response to determining that the virtual reality application is in use, begin monitoring for external signals by at least accessing an available sensor of a computing device;
• detect at least one external signal while monitoring for the external signals;
• in response to detecting the at least one external signal, determine a level of notification for an interruption notification of the virtual reality application based on the at least one external signal;
• receive context of the virtual reality application;
• determine a type for the interruption notification of the virtual reality application based on the determined level of notification and the context of the virtual reality application;
• and
• provide the interruption notification to the virtual reality application based on the determined type.