Patent ID: 9420392
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04S

Claim Text:
1. A method for operating a virtual reality system, the method comprising: detecting a spatial position of a head of a first person who is wearing virtual reality glasses and headphones to produce a detected spatial position; displaying a virtual object within a virtual environment from a virtual direction of view using the virtual reality glasses, wherein the virtual direction of view is specified depending on the detected spatial position of the head of the first person; reproducing an acoustic recording using the headphones; detecting speech sound from a second person using a microphone device to produce a detected speech sound; converting the detected speech sound into a speech signal; and reproducing the speech signal using the headphones, wherein a left loudspeaker and a right loudspeaker of the headphones are operated depending on the detected spatial position of the head of the first person such that the speech signal is reproduced by the left loudspeaker and the right loudspeaker as if the speech sound from the second person were to pass to the first person without the headphones being worn.