Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality system (“system”) accesses metadata descriptive of a plurality of surface data frame sequences that each depict a different view of a three-dimensional (3D) scene, and identifies a set of experience parameters descriptive of a particular virtual reality experience providable to a user by a media player device that processes a particular virtual reality dataset that is customized to the particular virtual reality experience. Based on the metadata and the identified set of experience parameters, the system selects surface data frame sequences for inclusion in a frame sequence subset upon which the particular virtual reality dataset is based. The system then includes an entry corresponding to the particular virtual reality dataset within an experience selection data structure configured to facilitate dynamic selection of different entries by the media player device as the media player device provides different virtual reality experiences to the user.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes a virtual reality content rendering system receiving two-dimensional (“2D”) color data and depth data captured by a plurality of capture devices disposed at different vantage points in relation to a three-dimensional (“3D”) scene, receiving metadata, generating, for each vantage point associated with each respective capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, and based on the metadata and the depth data, a partial 3D mesh projected into a virtual 3D space to produce a partial representation of the 3D scene in the virtual 3D space, and generating, based on the partial 3D meshes projected into the virtual 3D space, and from an arbitrary viewpoint within the virtual 3D space, an image view of the virtual 3D space. The generating of the image view may comprise accumulating the partial 3D meshes projected into the virtual 3D space.

Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality system (“system”) generates an experience selection data structure configured to facilitate dynamic selection of different entries included within the experience selection data structure by a media player device as the media player device provides different virtual reality experiences to a user by processing different virtual reality datasets corresponding to different entries that the media player device selects. The system provides the experience selection data structure to the media player device and detects that the media player device selects an entry by way of the experience selection data structure. The entry corresponds to a particular virtual reality dataset that is customized to a particular virtual reality experience. In response to the selection of the entry, the system provides, to the media player device, the particular virtual reality dataset that is customized to the particular virtual reality experience.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes a virtual reality media provider system acquiring, from a plurality of capture devices physically disposed at different vantage points in relation to a scene, a distinct set of two-dimensional (2D) color data and depth data (2D data) for each capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, each distinct set of 2D data representing a distinct unmeshed view of the scene from a respective vantage point of a respective capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, acquiring metadata for each distinct set of 2D data, packaging each distinct set of 2D data into a transport stream such that the transport stream includes data representing each distinct unmeshed view of the scene from each respective vantage point of each respective capture device, and providing the metadata and the transport stream for streaming to a media player device.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes a virtual reality media provider system acquiring, from a plurality of capture devices physically disposed at different vantage points in relation to a scene that includes one or more objects, surface data for the one or more objects, generating a color video data stream for the 2D color data and a depth video data stream for the depth data for each capture device included in the plurality of capture devices, packaging the color video data stream and the depth video data stream for each of the capture devices included in the plurality of capture devices into a transport stream, and providing metadata and the transport stream for streaming to a media player device.