Patent ID: 10540818

Abstract:
Video data of an environment may be prepared for stereoscopic presentation to a user in a virtual reality or augmented reality experience. According to one method, a plurality of locations distributed throughout a viewing volume may be designated, at which a plurality of vantages are to be positioned to facilitate viewing of the environment from proximate the locations. For each location, a plurality of images of the environment, captured from viewpoints proximate the location, may be retrieved. For each location, the images may be reprojected to a three-dimensional shape and combined to generate a combined image. The combined image may be applied to one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional shape to generate a vantage. The vantages may be stored such that the vantages can be used to generate stereoscopic viewpoint video of the scene, as viewed from at least two virtual viewpoints corresponding to viewpoints of an actual viewer's eyes within the viewing volume.