Abstract: A glove interface object, including: a flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of a finger portion of the glove interface object; a trackable object configured to be illuminated during interactivity, the trackable object being positioned at a wrist portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand rendered based on the identified finger position pose, the computing device identifying the trackable object from captured image data to track a location of the glove interface object; wherein the virtual hand is rendered at a location in the virtual environment that is substantially defined by the location of the glove interface object.

Abstract: A glove interface object is provided, comprising: at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of the glove interface object; at least one contact sensor configured to generate contact sensor data identifying a contact between a first portion of the glove interface object and a second portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data and the contact sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, the finger position pose being applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand being rendered based on the identified finger position pose.

Abstract: A system is provided, including a head-mounted display (HMD) and glove interface object. The HMD includes a viewing module having a view port into a screen configured for rendering image content that defines a view of a virtual environment, the image content being generated from execution of an interactive program by a computing device, an HMD communications module for receiving the image content from the computing device, an image processing module for processing image data received from the computing device for rendering the image content on the screen. The glove interface object includes at least one pressure sensor configured to generate pressure sensor data identifying a pressure applied to at least a portion of the glove interface object, and a glove communications module configured to transmit the pressure sensor data to the computing device for processing to be applied to a rendering of a virtual hand in the virtual environment.

Abstract: A system is provided, including a head-mounted display (HMD) and glove interface object. The HMD includes a viewing module having a view port into a screen configured for rendering image content that defines a view of a virtual environment, the image content being generated from execution of an interactive program by a computing device, an HMD communications module for receiving the image content from the computing device, an image processing module for processing image data received from the computing device for rendering the image content on the screen. The glove interface object includes at least one pressure sensor configured to generate pressure sensor data identifying a pressure applied to at least a portion of the glove interface object, and a glove communications module configured to transmit the pressure sensor data to the computing device for processing to be applied to a rendering of a virtual hand in the virtual environment.

Abstract: A glove interface object is provided, comprising: at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of the glove interface object; at least one contact sensor configured to generate contact sensor data identifying a contact between a first portion of the glove interface object and a second portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data and the contact sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, the finger position pose being applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand being rendered based on the identified finger position pose.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing texture mapping of pixel data are disclosed. A block of texture fetches is received with a co-processor element having a local memory. Each texture fetch includes pixel coordinates for a pixel in an image. The co-processor element determines one or more corresponding blocks of a texture stored in the main memory from the pixel coordinates of each texture fetch and a number of blocks NB that make up the texture. Each texture block contains all mipmap levels of the texture and N is chosen such that a number N of the blocks can be cached in a local store of the co-processor element, where N is less than NB. One or more of the corresponding blocks of the texture are loaded to the local memory if they are not currently loaded in the local memory. The co-processor element performs texture filtering with one or more of the texture blocks in the local memory to generate a pixel value corresponding to one of the texture fetches.

Abstract: Cell processor task management in a cell processor having a main memory, one or more power processor units (PPU) and one or more synergistic processing units (SPU), each SPU having a processor and a local memory is described. An SPU task manager (STM) running on one or more of the SPUs reads one or more task definitions stored in the main memory into the local memory of a selected SPU. Based on information contained in the task definitions the SPU loads code and/or data related to the task definitions from the main memory into the local memory associated with the selected SPU. The selected SPU then performs one or more tasks using the code and/or data.

Abstract: Cell processor task and data management systems methods and apparatus are disclosed. A cell processor divides an event that event requires more memory space than is available in a local storage of a synergistic processing element (SPE) into two or more segments. Each segment has a segment size that is less than or the same as an amount of memory space available in the local storage. The segments are processed with one or more SPE of the cell processor to produce two or more corresponding outputs.