Patent ID: 9092908
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06Q,G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, using one or more computing devices, for viewing a three-dimensional (3D) environment, comprising: identifying, using one or more computing devices, a user based on a client device of the user; accessing, using one or more computing devices, a social graph associating the user and a plurality of other users; based on the social graph, determining, using one or more computing devices, a plurality of images associated with any one or more of the other users in the social graph, and determining an access level of the user; providing, using one or more computing devices, based on the user's access level, a set of the plurality of images, to the client device, wherein the provided images are associated with any one or more of the other users; and providing, using the one or more computing devices, data to the client device wherein the data enables the display of the provided images in the 3D environment at the client device, and the data further includes a virtual path in the 3D environment passing through or by the provided images at location coordinates in the 3D environment corresponding with locations associated with the provided images, and the provided virtual path is generated based on the user's access level.