Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alton Kwok

Orry Wijanarko Soegiono

Julia Schwarz

Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda

Gerrit H Hofmeester

Casey Leon Meekhof

Lisa Carolyn Cherian

Sheng Kai Tang

Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi

Thomas Matthew Gable

Joshua Kyle Neff

Mathew Julian Lamb

Jeroen Vanturennout

Austin Seungmin Lee

Ranjib Singh Badh

Adam Christopher Czeisler

Steven Abrahams

Yosef Firstenberg

Kenneth Mitchell Jakubzak

Luke Cartwright

Jenny Kam

Eyal Axelrod

Hui Chun Ku

Dong Back Kim

Alon Farchy

Richard William Neal

Stephen Sisk

Vipul Bansal

Ritu Varma

James Leslie Humphrey, Iii

James Leslie Iii Humphrey

A computing system is provided. The computing system includes a head mounted display (HMD) device including a display, a processor configured to execute one or more programs, and associated memory. The processor is configured to display a virtual object at least partially within a field of view of a user on the display, identify a plurality of control points associated with the virtual object, and determine that one or more of the control points associated with the virtual object are further than a predetermined threshold distance from the user. The processor is configured to, based on the determination, invoke a far interaction mode for the virtual object and receive a trigger input from the user. In response to the trigger input in the far interaction mode, the processor is configured to invoke a near interaction mode and display a virtual interaction object within the predetermined threshold distance from the user.

Near interaction mode for far virtual object

Examples are disclosed that relate to utilizing image sensor inputs from different devices having different perspectives in physical space to construct an avatar of a first user in a video stream. The avatar comprises a three-dimensional representation of at least a portion of a face of the first user texture mapped onto a three-dimensional body simulation that follows actual physical movement of the first user. The three-dimensional body simulation of the first user is generated based on image data received from an imaging device and image sensor data received from a head-mounted display device both associated with the first user. The three-dimensional representation of the face of the first user is generated based on the image data received from the imaging device. The resulting video stream is sent, via a communication network, to a display device associated with a second user.

Multiple device sensor input based avatar

Systems and methods are provided for selectively controlling a carry mode for holograms presented in mixed-reality environments and for providing leashing buffers for the holograms. The carry mode enables holograms to be functionally moved within a single mixed-reality environment, and out into one or more different mixed-reality environments. The carry mode can be automatically applied to holograms created within the mixed-reality environment. The carry mode can also be applied responsive to user input applied to world-locked holograms, which triggers a switch from the world-locked mode to the carry mode from. Holograms can also be leashed for persistently displaying holograms associated with or linked to a user in the mixed-reality environment to provide the user increased accessibility to the hologram while navigating within and without a particular mixed-reality environment. Selectable options are presented with a hologram in carry mode for switching from the carry mode to the world-locked mode.

Interactive carry

A computing system is provided. The computing system includes a processor of a display device configured to execute one or more programs. The processor is configured to receive, from a user, a voice command, a first auxiliary input from a first sensor, and a second auxiliary input from a second sensor. The processor is configured to, for each of a plurality of objects in the user's field of view in an environment, determine a first set of probability factors with respect to the first auxiliary input and a second set of probability factors with respect to the second auxiliary input. Each probability factor in the first and second sets indicates a likelihood that respective auxiliary inputs are directed to one of the plurality of objects. The processor is configured to determine a target object based upon the probability factors and execute the command on the target object.

Voice command execution from auxiliary input

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status, and the availability status of the user can be set to available. If an active status update is not received from the user device, the availability status of the user can be changed from available to away. If an active status update for the user continues not to be received (e.g., for a few hours) and/or device connectivity seems lost, the availability status of the user can be changed from away to offline. This can be done in a resource/power efficient manner by not requiring continual execution of an associated application and/or continual network connectivity of the device.

User availability awareness

Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message.

Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with user interface

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