VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. (20250014289). VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION

VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION

Organization Name

VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.

Inventor(s)

Jennifer S. Wayne of Blacksburg VA US

Cameron Moore of Blacksburg VA US

Wallace Santos Lages of Blacksburg VA US

VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250014289 titled 'VIRTUAL REALITY CLINICAL IMMERSION

Original Abstract Submitted

disclosed herein are methods and systems for creating educational virtual reality environments. one or more cameras may capture 360-degree images of a medical environment. each of the 360-degree images are captured with a camera being placed at a respective location. a computing device may create a virtual reality environment of the medical environment based on the 360-degree images, by, for each of the 360-degree images, placing a user viewpoint at the respective location of the respective camera that captured the respective 360-degree image, placing a graphical representation of a first class at each other respective location that is visible in the respective 360-degree image, and placing a graphical representation of a second class over each object visible in the respective 360-degree image that has particular educational content assigned to the object. the computing device may output, for interactive display at a virtual reality device, the virtual reality environment.