Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ben John Hindle

Darren Bennett

Jeffrey Jesus Evertt

Christopher Harley Willoughby

Joel Deaguero

Justin Avram Clark

Christopher Vuchetich

Oscar Omar Garza Santos

Peter Glenn Sarrett

Matthew Haigh

Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon, for controlling objects in a virtual environment are provided. Real-world objects may be received into a virtual environment. The real-world objects may be any non-human object. An object skeleton may be identified and mapped to the object. A user skeleton of the real-world user may also be identified and mapped to the object skeleton. By mapping the user skeleton to the object skeleton, movements of the user control the movements of the object in the virtual environment.

Controlling objects in a virtual environment

A system for translating user motion into multiple object responses of an on-screen object based on user interaction of an application executing on a computing device is provided. User motion data is received from a capture device from one or more users. The user motion data corresponds to user interaction with an on-screen object presented in the application. The on-screen object corresponds to an object other than an on-screen representation of a user that is displayed by the computing device. The user motion data is automatically translated into multiple object responses of the on-screen object. The multiple object responses of the on-screen object are simultaneously displayed to the users.

Translating user motion into multiple object responses

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