Facebook Technologies, LLC

Calvin Tong

Patrick Kaifosh

Thomas Reardon

Timothy Machado

Erik Schomburg

A method for determining spatial information for a multi-segment articulated rigid body system having at least an anchored segment and a non-anchored segment coupled to the anchored segment, each segment in the multi-segment articulated rigid body system representing a respective body part of a user, the method comprising: obtaining signals recorded by a first autonomous movement sensor coupled to a body part of the user represented by the non-anchored segment; providing the obtained signals as input to a trained statistical model and obtaining corresponding output of the trained statistical model; and determining, based on the corresponding output of the trained statistical model, spatial information for at least the non-anchored segment of the multi-segment articulated rigid body system. Determining the spatial information may include determining the position and/or orientation of the non-anchored segment relative to the anchor point and/or determining a spatial relationship between the anchored and non-anchored segments.

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Calvin Tong