METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING FOR VEHICULAR MOTION

摘要

A head mounted virtual reality (VR) device including an inertial measurement unit (IMU) is located in a vehicle which may be, and sometimes is, moving. Detected motion attributable to vehicle motion is filtered out based on one or more or all of: vehicle type information, information derived from sensors located in the vehicle external to the head mounted VR device, and/or captured images including a reference point or reference object within the vehicle. An image portion of a simulated VR environment is selected and presented to the user of the head mounted VR device based on the filtered motion information. Thus, the image portion presented to the user of the head mounted VR device is substantially unaffected by vehicle motion and corresponds to user induced head motion.

主权项

1. A virtual reality (VR) method comprising:
receiving inertial measurement unit measurement (IMU) information obtained from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) within a head mounted VR device; processing the received inertial measurement unit information to filter out at least some detected motion attributable to motion of a vehicle to generate filtered information, said filtered information including at least one of: filtered orientation information or filtered motion information; and using the filtered information in controlling which portion of a simulated environment is displayed to a user at a given time.