Volvo Car Corporation

Lukasz Pasek

Qinzi Tan

Jon Seneger

Systems and methods for virtual showroom are described. The virtual showroom may allow a consumer to virtually visit a showroom and receive detailed vehicle information in a variety of manners. A consumer may use augmented reality to highlight a vehicle and receive information regarding it. A consumer may walk through a guided showroom tour or walk through an interactive showroom tour. Another user may be conferenced into the tour as well.

System and method for a virtual showroom

A method and system for selecting an instantiation point for a virtual asset relative to a physical space, the method including and system operable for: prompting a user to place a device at a desired position/alignment in the physical space; capturing the position/alignment with respect to a real world frame of reference; translating the position/alignment with respect to the real world frame of reference to a frame of reference in virtual space; and spawning the virtual asset in the virtual space at/with the translated position/alignment. The device includes one of a smartphone with a camera and a 6 degree-of-freedom controller.

Aligning the augmented reality or virtual reality world with the real world using natural position understanding

A method of and system for recreating a real world pose or aligning a real world object in a virtual space, the method including: prompting a user to successively place a device at a plurality of positions/alignments associated with a plurality of physical points associated with a body of the user, a body of another, or an object; capturing the plurality of positions/alignments with respect to a real world frame of reference; translating the plurality of positions/alignments with respect to the real world frame of reference to a frame of reference in virtual space; and recreating a pose of the body of the user, a pose of the body of the other, or an alignment of the object in the virtual space using the translated plurality of positions/alignments.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Lukasz Pasek