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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Darby Johnston, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ian Wakelin, Berkeley, CA (US);
LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method facilitating a user to manipulate a virtual reality (VR) environment are disclosed. The user may provide an input via a touch sensitive surface of a computing device associated with the user to bind a virtual object in the VR environment to the computing device. The user may then move and/or rotate the computing device to cause the bound virtual object to move and/or rotate in the VR environment accordingly. In some examples, the bound virtual object may cast a ray into the VR environment. The movement and/or rotation of the virtual object controlled by the computing device in those examples can change the direction of the ray. In some examples, the virtual object may include a virtual camera. In those examples, the user may move and/or rotate the virtual camera in the VR environment by moving and/or rotate the computing device.