Volkswagen Ag

Vince Tulit

Enes Olcay

Loren Skelly

Christian Kern

Gerardo Alberto Rossano Herrera

Evaristo Galamay

Gerrit Güterbock

Joseph Andrew Sisk

Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for immersive media rendering with vehicle components. According to one embodiment, an immersive media content to be played back in a vehicle is identified. Audio data and vehicle component control metadata are determined in the immersive media content. The audio data is used to generate sound waves with audio speakers of the in-vehicle audio system to produce an in-vehicle sound field for a user inside the vehicle to audibly perceive. The vehicle component control metadata is used to perform actions of vehicle components of the vehicle. The actions of the vehicle components are synchronized by way of the vehicle component control metadata to specific playback times in a playback time duration represented in the immersive media content.

Immersive media rendering with vehicle components

A vehicle system, including one or more vehicle immersion components, operatively coupled to a vehicle processing apparatus, each of the one or more vehicle immersion components configured to execute an immersive effect in the vehicle. A vehicle component, operatively coupled to the vehicle processing apparatus, is configured to execute a vehicle function, wherein an operational profile includes data for assigning the vehicle component to the one or more vehicle immersion components, and where the vehicle component is configured to modify operation from executing the vehicle function to executing the immersive effect when the operational profile is executed in the vehicle.

Immersive vehicle component configuration and operation

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