The present disclosure relates to a method for placing a virtual object. The method includes: obtaining a position information and a first movement direction of a first object in a first area displaying a virtual space; determining a target area based on the position information and the first movement direction, the target area being outside the first area and located by a side of the first area along the first movement direction; obtaining object placing configuration information; selecting a target object from all second objects based on the object placing configuration information; and placing the target object in the target area.

The present invention provides systems for and methods of playing a video game that includes providing a game character having a virtual appearance characteristic, receiving an input signal indicative of a user exercise performance level, and altering the virtual appearance characteristic in response to receiving the input signal. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.

A system and method for improved graphics rendering in a video game environment.

This application discloses techniques for generating and querying projective hash maps. More specifically, projective hash maps can be used for spatial hashing of data related to N-dimensional points. Each point is projected onto a projection surface to convert the three-dimensional (3D) coordinates for the point to two-dimensional (2D) coordinates associated with the projection surface. Hash values based on the 2D coordinates are then used as an index to store data in the projective hash map. Utilizing the 2D coordinates rather than the 3D coordinates allows for more efficient searches to be performed to locate points in the 3D space. In particular, projective hash maps can be utilized by graphics applications for generating images, and the improved efficiency can, for example, enable a game streaming application on a server to render images transmitted to a user device via a network at faster frame rates.

The present disclosure relates to device and method for rendering VR content that provide bird's eye view perspectives, which can render a user's avatar and game content selected by the at least one user in a VR space, and provide a VR image like the avatar plays the game content, thereby providing an effect to play a game while viewing the game content from various points of view as well as a bird's eye view in the at least one user's perspective.

An interactive environment image may be displayed in a virtual environment space, and interaction with the interactive environment image may be detected within a three-dimensional space that corresponds to the virtual environment space. The interactive environment image may be a three-dimensional image, or it may be two-dimensional. An image is displayed to provide a visual representation of an interactive environment image including one or more virtual objects, which may be spatially positioned. User interaction with the visualized representation in the virtual environment space may be detected and, in response to user interaction, the interactive environment image may be changed.

A method for emulation of graphical parameters during a play of a legacy game is described. The method includes receiving a user input from a hand-held controller and determining whether one or more basic blocks of code for servicing the user input are stored in a cache. The method further includes compiling the one or more basic blocks of code from one or more emulated processing unit (PU) code instructions upon determining that the one or more basic blocks are not stored in the cache. The method includes executing the one or more basic blocks of code to generate one or more legacy graphical parameters. The method includes emulating the one or more legacy graphical parameters to generate one or more image frames having one or more updated graphical parameters for display of one or more images of the legacy game on a display device.

A three-dimensional object for which three orthogonal object axes are set is disposed in a virtual space. One or two of the three object axes are determined as an enlargement/reduction axis, based on an orientation of the three-dimensional object in the virtual space. A user's operation input is associated with the enlargement/reduction axes. The three-dimensional object is at least enlarged or reduced based on the association of the user's operation input with the enlargement/reduction axes.

Techniques for a texture modification feature are described herein. First data identifying a position and a distance of an actor in an environment from a view point is obtained. The actor may correspond to a mesh comprised of a plurality of triangles. Second data identifying a location, an angle, and size for each triangle of the plurality of triangles with respect to a spectrum of pre-defined viewpoints is obtained. A value for each triangle may be determined based on the first data and the second data. The value may represent a level of detail to optimize viewing of each triangle of the actor from a corresponding viewpoint of the spectrum of pre-defined viewpoints. One or more areas of a texture that corresponds to the mesh may be modified prior to applying the texture to the mesh based on the associated values for triangles of the mesh.

Methods and systems for presenting an image of a user interacting with a video game includes providing images of a virtual reality (VR) scene of the video game for rendering on a display screen of a head mounted display (HMD). The images of the VR scene are generated as part of game play of the video game. An input provided at a user interface on the HMD received during game play is used to initiate a signal to pause the video game and to generate an activation signal to activate an image capturing device. The activation signal causes the image capturing device to capture an image of the user interacting in a physical space. The image of the user captured by the image capturing device during game play is associated with a portion of the video game that corresponds with a time when the image of the user was captured. The association causes the image of the user to be transmitted to the HMD for rendering on the display screen of the HMD.