ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,653, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Virtuix Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Efficient capture and delivery of walkable and interactive virtual reality or 360 degree video" was invented by Jan Goetgeluk (Austin, Texas) and Benjamin John Drakes (Cardigan, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for generating a walkable 360-degree video or virtual reality (VR) environment. 360-degree video data is obtained for a real-world environment and comprises a plurality of chronologically ordered frames captured by traversing a first path through the real-world environment. One or more processing operat...