| CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) | 18 Claims |
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1. A method of operating a portable electronic device to provide a virtual experience system, the method comprising:
a) receiving a definition for a virtual space for a user to navigate within, including a virtual space terrain that has 3D models of a non-flat virtual space terrain, including but not limited to height variations, ups and downs, in the virtual space terrain;
b) receiving an initial correlation vector that relates a virtual coordinate system associated with the virtual space to a physical coordinate system associated with a physical space;
c) maintaining location data of the portable electronic device, within the physical space, the location data responsive to estimates of physical location of the portable electronic device, and including position, orientation, and acceleration data;
d) maintaining a user avatar position in the virtual space correlated to a real world ground plane location within the physical space, including an avatar virtual height calculated from the virtual space terrain;
e) creating a display on the portable electronic device comprising:
i. a real world camera view;
ii. layered above that real world camera view, a view of elements from the virtual space, including a rendering of 3D models where the virtual terrain changes from being flat, and
f) as the avatar virtual height moves lower than a real height of the user in the physical space, taking visual samples of a real world landscape and tiling and/or mirroring such visual samples, based on a virtual world perspective.
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