Robert Thomas Carroll

Address:

17725 Bellechase Cir, San Diego, CA 92128

VIN:

1G4HE57Y87U108345

Make:

Buick

Model:

Lucerne

Year:

2007

US Patent:

20180024624, Jan 25, 2018

Filed:

Jul 19, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/214427

Inventors:

- PALO ALTO CA, US
MIHIR SHAH - PALO ALTO CA, US
ANDREW RAYMOND BUCK - SUNNYVALE CA, US
JONATHAN LINSNER - SAN LEANDRO CA, US
MARC ANTHONY BOURGET - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US
ROBERT CARROLL - SAN DIEGO CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/01
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/0482

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for assessing comfort levels associated with user experience of a virtual reality environment is provided. In an embodiment, during execution of a virtual reality program by a client computer that causes generating and displaying a virtual reality environment via a virtual reality display device that is coupled to the client computer, a set of comfort level processing instructions are programmed to perform receiving a programmatic call from the virtual reality program that invokes comfort level processing; generating and causing the client computer to display a prompt panel within the virtual reality environment that prompts selecting a comfort value indicating a relative level of user comfort associated with the virtual reality environment; receiving an input signal indicating a selection of the comfort value; creating in memory of the client computer a digital message that includes the comfort value, one or more names of metadata attributes associated with the virtual reality environment, and one or more metadata values corresponding to the names of metadata attributes and indicating one or more aspects of a state of the virtual reality environment at a time that the digital message is created; transmitting the digital message from the client computer to a server computer over a data network.