Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Rui Yang

Courtney Yingling

Kristine Young

Olga Rudi

Tatianna Manzon-Gutzman

Hsin-Yi Chien

Celeste Bean

Victoria Dorn

Alessandra Luizello

Tatianna Forget

Jin Ryong Kim

Chen Zhao

Stephanie Chan

Yu Qin

Puhe Liang

Paul Fu

Shenli Yuan

Xiaohu Dong

Xiangchao Huang

A system and method for providing automated intervention in a virtual environment is disclosed. Intervention settings for a user are stored, wherein the intervention settings for the user includes one or more customized intervention triggers each corresponding to one or more trigger conditions and an intervention response. A current session associated with a user device of the user is monitored, wherein monitoring the current session includes analyzing interactions between the user and one or more other users in a virtual environment of the current session based on the intervention settings. One of the intervention triggers is identified as having occurred in the current session based on detecting the corresponding trigger conditions in the virtual environment. A workflow associated with the intervention response that corresponds to the identified intervention trigger is modulated based on the interactions between the user and the other users in the virtual environment. The intervention response is executed in the virtual environment of the current session based on the modulated workflow.

Personal space bubble in VR environments

Systems and methods for personalized controls and communications in virtual environments are provided. A virtual reality (VR) profile may be stored in memory for a user. Such VR profile may specify a cue associated with custom instructions executable to modify one or more virtual display elements. An interactive session associated with a virtual environment in which the user is participating via a user device may be monitored based on the VR profile stored for the user. The cue specified by the VR profile may be detected as being present in the monitored communication session. The virtual elements may be modified within a presentation of the virtual environment provided to the user device in accordance with the executable instructions associated with the cue specified by the VR profile of the user.

Personalized VR controls and communications

A method and system for providing a memory-based motivational mode in virtual reality is disclosed. A plurality of virtual reality datasets is stored, each virtual reality dataset including data regarding a different set of stimuli and corresponding biometric data of a player. Launching a virtual reality session includes presenting a current set of stimuli to the player in a virtual reality environment of an interactive content title. A plurality of virtual reality datasets is stored. Each virtual reality dataset includes data regarding a different set of stimuli and corresponding biometric data of a player. Real-time biometric data is tracked and associated with the current set of stimuli presented to the player. The current set of stimuli of the virtual reality environment is updated based on a set of stimuli from an identified virtual reality dataset that include the biometric data corresponding to an identified change.

Memory-based motivational mode

Systems and methods for visually tagging communications in communication sessions are provided. A current communication session associated with a user device communicating with one or more other user devices may be monitored. The current communication session may include a plurality of messages including a set of the messages associated with the user device. An emotional state may be identified for each of the messages in the set and categorized based on analyzing the set of the messages in view of contextual information regarding the user of the user device. A categorized emotional state of at least one of the messages may be detected as triggering a tagging rule associated with the user of the user device. A presentation of the set of the messages may be modified within the current communication session based on the tagging rule. The modified presentation may include one or more tags indicative of the categorized emotional state of the at least one message.

Visual tagging and heat-mapping of emotion

Systems and methods for providing a universal remote control are disclosed. Control schemes for a plurality of remotely-controlled devices may be stored in memory of the universal remote control, where each of the control schemes includes a set of commands for a corresponding one of the remotely-controlled devices. Instructions for each command corresponding to one or more signals for the corresponding remotely-controlled device may be encoded. Based on a current orientation of a mobile device relative to a location of the remotely-controlled devices in a real-world environment, one of the remotely-controlled devices may be identified as being selected. Based on the stored control scheme for the selected remotely-controlled device a display for the mobile device may be generated, wherein the generated display includes the set of commands corresponding to the selected remotely-controlled device. A selection from the generated display of commands may be received. The selection corresponding to one or more signals based on the control scheme for the selected remotely-controlled device may be identified. The identified signals may be transmitted to the selected remotely-controlled device, wherein the transmitted signals include instructions executable by the selected remotely-controlled device to perform the selected command.

Universal controller

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing a multimodal 3D object interaction to let the user interact with 3D digital object in a natural and realistic way.

Multimodal 3D object interaction system

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Rui Yang