US Patent Issued to DIRECTV on March 31 for "Method and system for viewing sports content within a virtual reality environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. RE50,852, issued on March 31, was assigned to DIRECTV LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Method and system for viewing sports content within a virtual reality environment" was invented by Michael E. Depies (El Segundo, Calif.), Vikash Sharma (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Aaron L. Goldstein (Los Angeles) and Charles W. Beeson (La Mirada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality (VR) system including a head mounted display (HMD), a sensor or input device, and options, selection, and display modules. The HMD displays a VR environment including sports content of a live game, a prerecorded game, or a sports channel. The options module genera...