US Patent 11468637 Methods and systems for path-based locomotion in virtual reality

Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of navigating a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. The method includes providing the VR environment, receiving, from a user, inputs indicative of a user-drawn path in the VR environment, the user-drawn path originating at a position of the user and terminating at a terminal point in the VR environment, generating a plurality of waypoints along the user-drawn path, moving the user to a first waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, pausing the user at the first waypoint, and moving, responsive to a criterion being met, the user to a second waypoint of the plurality of waypoints.