Patent ID: 9616338
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A client virtual reality device useful in generating virtual reality replay streams, virtual reality replay streams corresponding to virtual reality sessions generated by the client virtual reality device, the client virtual reality device comprising: at least one computing processing unit; a network interface; a computer readable storage medium; and memory in data communication with said at least one computer processing unit and containing executable instructions for causing said at least one computing processing unit to perform a method comprising: wherein, prior to step (d), steps (b) and (c) are repeated in accordance with a positional update sample rate associated with said virtual reality session capture thread, step (a) includes determining a frame rate associated with said virtual reality session and said positional update sample rate associated with said virtual reality session capture thread and step (b) includes monitoring a current frame count of said virtual reality session and determining when to provide a positional update request of said plurality of positional update requests based at least in part on said positional update sample rate and said current frame count.