Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Addison Kenan Linville

Jarod Wayne Lenz Erwin

Dong Yoon Park

Oscar E Murillo

Lisa Joy Stifelman

Shane Jeremy Landry

Jason Ryan Farmer

Vikram Padmakar Bapat

Kelly Rose McArthur

Kristoffer S Schultz

Stefanie Lyn Tomko

John Henson

Tyrone Samson

Cheryl Nicole Platz

David A Walker

Craig Fox

Examples are disclosed that relate to computing devices, head-mounted display devices, and methods for displaying holographic objects using slicing planes or volumes. In one example a computing device causes a display system to display a holographic object associated with a holographic volume, the holographic object occluding an occluded holographic object that is not displayed. Location data of at least a portion of a hand is received from a sensor. The location data of the hand is used to locate a slicing plane or a slicing volume within the holographic volume. Based on the location of the slicing plane or the slicing volume, at least a portion of the occluded holographic object is displayed via the display system.

Displaying holograms via hand location

One disclosed example provides a computing device comprising a logic subsystem comprising a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the logic subsystem. The instructions are executable to display via a display system one or more holographic objects, receive depth image data from a depth image sensor, detect a user input setting a trajectory for a selected holographic object, in response to detecting the user input setting the trajectory for the selected holographic object, determine the trajectory for the selected holographic object set by the user input, determine, based upon the depth image data and the trajectory, a surface intersected by the trajectory of the selected holographic object, and display via the display system the selected holographic object as travelling along the trajectory and changing in form upon encountering the surface.

Setting hologram trajectory via user input

Display screen with graphical user interface

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