Abstract: A system including a device application, system application, and cloud application carry out a sequence to authenticate an augmented or virtual reality or other device to operate on a network for a temporary period of time. The system enables portability of personal devices for use on various private data networks.

Abstract: The current document is directed to optically detectable markers that uniquely identify entities within a physical environment monitored by an automated, camera-based monitoring system and to methods for generating the sets of different, uniquely identifiable optically detectable markers. An optically detectable marker generated by the currently disclosed methods includes multiple individual optical markers positioned in space so that the arrangement of the multiple optical markers lacks rotational symmetry, ensuring that the orientation of the optically detectable marker can be unambiguously determined by the automated camera-based optical monitoring system.

Abstract: The current document is directed to a virtual-reality system, and methods incorporated within the virtual-reality system, that provides a scalable physical volume in which human participants can freely move and assume arbitrary body positions while receiving electronic signals that are rendered to the human participants by virtual-reality rendering appliances to immerse the human participants in a virtual environment. In a described implementation, the virtual-reality system includes multiple networked optical sensors, a computational tracking system, networked virtual-reality engines, and virtual-reality rendering appliances.