Ballast Technologies, Inc.

Sub Sea Systems, Inc.

Jim Mayfield

Ananda Shah

Stephen Greenwood

Alkis Roufas

Hannah De Bie

Kyle Mayfield

Keenan Mayfield

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing VR/MR experiences to users in water through a headset and at least one special-effects device. During a VR/MR experience, a controller may send commands to a special-effects device at particular times to cause the special-effects device to create effects in synchronism with the visual portion of the VR/MR experience. A headset application that provides the visual portion of the VR/MR experience may communicate with the controller before the experience begins to establish the identity of the experience and the start time. The VR/MR experience may be selected by reading a storage medium (e.g., a near-field communication (NFC) card) that identifies the experience and/or the controller. Some information on the storage medium may be included in a metadata file transferred to the application. The application may send information read from the storage medium to the controller via an over-the-air network.

Systems, methods, and devices for providing virtual-reality or mixed-reality experiences with special effects to a user in or under water

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Diamond Springs, CA, United States of America

Jim Mayfield