Virtual reality platform with haptic interface for interfacing with media items having metadata

An apparatus for interacting with media items in a virtual reality environment, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to:

• control a display of a virtual reality interface to render representations of media items in the virtual reality environment, the media items being associated with a metadata attribute;
• control the display to render metadata links between the metadata attribute and the representations of the media items that have the metadata attribute;
• detect, from the haptic interface, a haptic gesture to bundle and pull the metadata links into a foreground;
• and
• receive, at the processing circuitry, a selection of the media items that have the selected metadata links that have been bundled and pulled into the foreground, in response to detecting the haptic gesture to bundle and pull the metadata links into the foreground.

A method comprising:

• controlling a display of a virtual reality interface to render representations of media items in the virtual reality environment, the media items being associated with a metadata attribute;
• controlling the display to render metadata links between the metadata attribute and the representations of the media items that have the metadata attribute;
• detecting, from the haptic interface, a haptic gesture to bundle and pull the metadata links into a foreground;
• and
• receiving, at the processing circuitry, a selection of the media items that have the metadata links that have been bundled and pulled into the foreground, in response to detecting the haptic gesture to bundle and pull the metadata links into the foreground.