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Portable device, virtual reality system and method

US9216347B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

Christopher Mutschler · Cadolzburg, DE
Stephan Otto · Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Nicolas Witt · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 4, 2014
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 4, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F3/147
WIPO fieldFurniture, games
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A portable device includes a viewing direction sensor configured to determine the viewing direction of a user of the portable device in the real world and a position determiner configured to determine a position of the user in the real world. Furthermore, the portable device includes a processing unit configured to generate—based on the viewing direction of the user and the position of the user in the real world—a virtual world in which a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the real world leads to a change of the viewing direction in a 3D coordinate system of the virtual world. The portable device further includes a display configured to display the generated virtual world to the user while blocking a view of the real world.

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