Systems, Methods and Apparatuses to Facilitate Gradual or Instantaneous Adjustment in Levels of Perceptibility of Virtual Objects or Reality Object in a Digital Scene

Abstract

Systems, methods and apparatuses to Facilitate Gradual or Instantaneous Adjustment in Levels of Perceptibility of Virtual Objects or Reality Object in a Digital Scene are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, to render a virtual object in a user interface as having a first perceptibility level and/or to render a reality object in the user interface as having a second perceptibility level. the reality object can include a photorealistic depiction of a physical object in a real environment associated with the scene.

1 . A machine-readable storage medium, having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method to generate a user interface of a scene to depict a virtual object and a reality object, the method, comprising:
 rendering the virtual object in the user interface as having a first perceptibility level;   rendering the reality object in the user interface as having a second perceptibility level;   wherein, the reality object includes a photorealistic depiction of a physical object in a real environment associated with the scene.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the first perceptibility level includes levels of human perceptibility;   the second perceptibility level includes levels of human perceptibility;   one or more of the first perceptibility level and the second perceptibility is adjustable.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 one or more of the first perceptibility level and the second perceptibility is adjusted through opacity or translucency;   wherein,   one or more of the first perceptibility level and the second perceptibility level is adjustable by a user,   wherein, the user is physically located in the real world environment.   
     
     
         4 . (canceled) 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the first perceptibility level is independently adjustable in relation to the second perceptibility;   the second perceptibility level is independently adjustable in relation to the first perceptibility.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the virtual object is one or more of temporally relevant to real phenomenon in the real environment and spatially relevant to a real entity in the real environment;   wherein, the scene includes an augmented reality environment associated with real environment.   
     
     
         7 . (canceled) 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the virtual object is contextually relevant to phenomenon in the real environment;   wherein, the scene includes an augmented reality environment associated with real environment.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the virtual object is irrelevant and uncorrelated to the real environment;   wherein the first perceptibility level of the virtual object is of a finite level;   wherein the second perceptibility level of the reality object is unobservable or negligible;   wherein, the scene includes a virtual reality environment.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the second perceptibility level of the reality object is of a finite level;   wherein the first perceptibility level of the virtual object is unobservable or negligible;   wherein, the scene includes a basic reality environment.   
     
     
         11 .- 12 . (canceled) 
     
     
         13 . The method of claim  11 , wherein:
 one or more of the first perceptibility level and the second perceptibility level is adjustable by a user accessing the scene via the user interface, using control features in the user interface;   the control features include one or more of, voice control features, gesture control features, body movement control features, touchable slider, dial and button, gaze detection or eye movement detection features.   
     
     
         14 .- 15 . (canceled) 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein:
 one or more of the first perceptibility level and the second perceptibility level is adjustable by one or more of, a system platform, operating system, application, and device settings on a device on which the user interface is rendered.   
     
     
         17 . (canceled) 
     
     
         18 . A method to adjust a virtualness level of a digital scene, the method, comprising:
 rendering a virtual reality layer in the digital scene;   wherein, the virtual reality layer comprises one or more virtual objects;   further rendering a basic reality layer in the digital scene;   wherein, the basic reality layer comprises one or more reality objects;   wherein, the reality objects include photorealistic depictions of real world phenomenon in a real environment associated with the digital scene;   generating the digital scene using the virtual reality layer at a first perceptibility level and the basic reality layer at a second perceptibility level.   
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 18 , further comprising, one or more of:
 switching the second perceptibility level of the basic reality layer to off or of negligible perceptibility to generate a virtual reality environment in the digital scene;   switching the first perceptibility level of the virtual reality layer to off or of negligible perceptibility to generate a basic reality environment in the digital scene.   
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 18 , wherein:
 the digital scene includes an augmented reality environment when the first perceptibility level is of an observable level and the second perceptibility level is of an observable level.   
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 18 , further comprising one or more of:
 decreasing the first perceptibility level or increasing the second perceptibility level to decrease the virtualness level of the digital scene; and   increasing the first perceptibility level or decreasing the second perceptibility level to increase the virtualness level of the digital scene.   
     
     
         22 . (canceled) 
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 18 , wherein:
 the first perceptibility level includes one or more of, a visibility parameter and an audibility parameter;   wherein, the second perceptibility level includes one or more of: a visibility parameter and an audibility parameter;   wherein;   the visibility parameter is determined by one or more of opacity, translucency, brightness. sharpness, contrast;   wherein;   the audibility parameter is determined by one or more of: volume, bass, treble, bitrate, encoding, bandwidth, frequency range, power level.   
     
     
         24 .- 25 . (canceled) 
     
     
         26 . The method of  claim 18 ,
 wherein, the virtual reality layer includes multiple virtual reality sublayers;   wherein, different sublayers of the multiple virtual reality sublayers are associated with individual perceptibility controls;   wherein, the basic reality layer includes multiple basic reality sublayers;   wherein different sublayers of the multiple basic reality sublayers are associated with individual perceptibility controls.   
     
     
         27 . The method of  claim 18 , further comprising one more of:
 determining the first perceptibility level using one or more of the individual perceptibility controls of the different sublayers of the multiple virtual reality sublayers;   and   determining the second perceptibility level one or more of the individual perceptibility controls of the different sublayers of the multiple basic reality sublayers.   
     
     
         28 .- 29 . (canceled) 
     
     
         30 . The method of  claim 18 ,
 wherein, the virtual reality layer includes multiple virtual reality objects;   wherein, different virtual reality objects of the multiple virtual reality sublayers are associated with individual perceptibility controls;   wherein, the basic reality layer includes multiple reality objects;   wherein, different reality objects of the multiple reality objects are associated with individual perceptibility controls.   
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 18 , further comprising one or more of:
 determining the first perceptibility level using one or more of the individual perceptibility controls of the different virtual reality objects of the multiple virtual reality objects; and   determining the second perceptibility level using one or more of the individual perceptibility controls of the different reality objects of the multiple reality objects.   
     
     
         32 .- 33 . (canceled) 
     
     
         34 . An apparatus to depict transitioning in virtualness level for a scene, the apparatus, comprising:
 a processor;   memory having stored having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:   increase a first perceptibility level of a virtual object or decrease a second perceptibility level of a reality object to increase the virtualness level of the scene;   decrease the first perceptibility level of a virtual object or increase the second perceptibility level of a reality object to decease the virtualness level of the scene.   
     
     
         35 . The apparatus of  claim 34 , wherein,
 the scene includes one or more of:   a virtual reality environment when the second perceptibility level of the reality object is negligible or substantially unobservable; and   an augmented reality environment when the second perceptibility level of the reality object is negligible or substantially unobservable.   
     
     
         36 . (canceled)