Patent ID: 9588730
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. A method of displaying a multiuser augmented reality environment, comprising: capturing a visual scene for display, wherein the visual scene includes a first user and wherein the visual scene is captured in a first location using a first plurality of camera devices; identifying, in the visual scene, an embedded symbol associated with a garment worn by the first user; generating a virtual augmentation corresponding to the first user that is animated based on the captured visual scene, wherein the virtual augmentation comprises: receiving, over a data communications network, visual scene data for a second user, wherein the received visual scene data is captured in a second location, distinct from the first location, using a second plurality of camera devices; transmitting, over the data communications network, data representative of a three-dimensional representation of the first user, based on images captured using the first plurality of camera devices, wherein a remote augmented reality device in the second location is configured to rendering a sequence of frames for display depicting, at least in part, a first augmented reality character corresponding to the first user in the multiuser augmented reality environment; generating an augmented reality character corresponding to the second user, wherein the augmented reality character is animated based on the received visual scene data; and rendering a sequence of frames for display, wherein the sequence of frames depicts the first user augmented with the virtual augmentation and the augmented reality character corresponding to the second user in the multiuser augmented reality environment, wherein the rendered sequence of frames depict at least a portion of the first user as wearing the selected costume.