Immersive virtual reality production and playback for storytelling content
AssigneeWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
InventorsGregory I. Gewickey, Lewis S. Ostrover, Michael Smith, Michael Zink
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Abstract
Methods for digital content production and playback of an immersive stereographic video work provide or enhance interactivity of immersive entertainment using various different playback and production techniques. “Immersive stereographic” may refer to virtual reality, augmented reality, or both. The methods may be implemented using specialized equipment for immersive stereographic playback or production. Aspects of the methods may be encoded as instructions in a computer memory, executable by one or more processors of the equipment to perform the aspects.
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A method for controlling a story line of immersive stereographic content, the method comprising:
- collecting, in a computer memory, sensor data from a plurality of immersive stereographic client devices indicating at least one user biometric during performance of a prerecorded stereographic video work playing on the immersive stereographic client devices;
- correlating, by at least one computer processor, the sensor data to ones of segment identifiers recorded in a data structure, each of the segment identifiers correlated to a different one of prerecorded immersive stereographic video segments comprising the prerecorded immersive stereographic video work;
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- defining, by the at least one computer processor, an alternative story line in the form of an electronic data file for a modified version of the prerecorded immersive stereographic video, based on the correlating and on a library of immersive stereographic video segments each associated with an alternative story line branch.
A method for controlling a display of an immersive stereographic content display apparatus, the method comprising:
- processing, by a processor of the apparatus, sensor data from at least one sensor coupled to the processor during performance of a immersive stereographic video work playing on the apparatus for a user;
- determining, during the performance, a virtual position of a region of visual focus in a virtual environment defined by the immersive stereographic video work, based on the sensor data;
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- controlling output of the apparatus in response to the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.