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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment America Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for augmenting a video game with an avatar of a real world person. A method provides for executing a video game being played by a user via a head mounted display (HMD). The method includes operations for identifying a generic spectator within the video game and determining virtual coordinates associated with the generic spectator. The method also provides receiving data associated with an avatar of a real world person that is usable to display the avatar within the video game in three-dimensional (3D) form. The method provides removing the generic spectator from view within the video game and inserting the avatar into the video game at the virtual coordinates associated with the generic spectator. The method further provides rendering a virtual reality (VR) presentation of the video game for the user having a view of the avatar and sending the VR presentation to an HMD of the user for display.