Patent ID: 9703369
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A63F,G02B,G06F

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a game console for providing a game; a head-mounted display having a video camera coupled to said game console, wherein a user of said head-mounted display is operable to see said user's three-dimensional physical surroundings as a result of the head-mounted display; and a controller associated with said head-mounted display, wherein said controller provides a first three-dimensional control signal to move a virtual object and a second three-dimensional control signal to change the movement of said virtual object from the movement provided from said first three-dimensional control signal, said virtual object is visually provided to said user such that said user sees said virtual object in said user's three-dimensional physical surroundings, said camera detects a physical surface in said three-dimensional physical surroundings, and said first three-dimensional control signal moves said virtual object three-dimensionally over at least three axis of movement about said three-dimensional physical surroundings within a predetermined playing area in a first manner and said second three-dimensional control signal moves said virtual object three-dimensionally over at least three axis of movement about said three-dimensional physical surroundings within said predetermined playing area in a second manner.