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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2022
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert Keith Butler, Overland Park, KS (US);
T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
The technology described herein controls what a user hears while in a virtual reality environment. A user may be exposed to multiple audio sources while in the virtual reality environment. All of these competing audio sources need to be combined to produce the audio content output to the user. Further, various entities have an interest in the user hearing different audio content. The interest can be expressed through settings made available by the VR platform. The VR platform can provide user settings, landowner settings, and platform settings. The sound settings can change based on where the user's avatar is located in the VR environment. For example, when the user's avatar is located on virtual property owned by an entity other than the VR platform or user, then entities sound-preferences are considered along with the user's sound preferences, and VR platform's sound preferences.