Patent ID: 9741169
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G02B,G06F,G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. A method of smoothly transitioning between an immersive virtual environment and a convergent mixed reality environment during an augmented hybrid experience, the method comprising: using at least one camera to capture a sequence of images of a physical real environment in convergence with an immersive virtual environment during an augmented hybrid experience; responsive to a command input, automatically interrupting the immersive virtual environment and superimposing at least one virtual object of the immersive virtual environment in the physical real environment to generate data representing a mixed reality environment during the augmented hybrid experience; at a first time t0, using a sensor attached to the HMD, sensing a first position of at least one physical object in a first reference frame of the physical real environment, including tracking portions of the physical object; causing display of a first virtual representation of the physical object at the first position, wherein the first virtual representation is rendered in the immersive virtual environment of the HMD; at a second time t1, sensing, in the physical real environment, a second position of the physical object and at least some of the portions different from the first position responsive to repositioning of the physical real environment and the attached sensor due to body movement of a user wearing the HMD, wherein the physical object has not moved in the physical real environment between t0 and t1; and causing display of a second virtual representation of the physical object at an actual second position.