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Gregory Bishop Bahm

Xonatia Ravelle Lee

Cedric Khanntipo Ith

Jacek Ciereszko

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

John Copic

Jedd Chevrier

Michael Casey Lanigan

Josiah Michael McClanahan

Jedd Alexander Chevrier

A computing device spatially reconstructs a virtual feature surface in a mixed reality environment. The computing device detects addition of a raycast element to a virtual user space, maps multiple feature points detected from multiple video frames of a physical user space into a virtual user space, selecting at least three feature points from the multiple feature points that satisfy selection criteria applied in the virtual user space along a raycast axis of the raycast element in the virtual user space, and defines the virtual feature surface in the virtual user space using the at least three selected feature points. At least two of the at least three feature points are detected in different video frames.

Data selection for spatial reconstruction

Annotation techniques are implemented in an augmented reality environment. A user is presented with a GUI configured to place three-dimensional virtual annotations in an environment displayed via the user's computing device. The GUI presents a central GUI element that is center-locked with respect to the environment displayed via the user's computing device. The central GUI element is coplanar to a detected surface of the environment on which the central GUI element is virtually located. The annotation may be a three-dimensional arrow. While viewing the environment, a preview of the three-dimensional arrow pointing towards the central GUI element is presented to the user. Upon providing user input, the arrow is placed on the detected surface. The user may provide additional input that rotates the three-dimensional arrow around the central GUI element before placing the arrow.

Systems and methods for placing annotations in an augmented reality environment using a center-locked interface

In a method to illustrate a weather condition via a near-eye display system, a representation of a geographic region is displayed via the near-eye display system. For each of a series of elevations above the geographic region, a weather-data slice is received, which defines a weather-parameter value for each of a plurality of 2D coordinates at that elevation. A volume-filling weather model is constructed based on the weather-parameter values received for each elevation and 2D coordinate. A digital filter and a coordinate transform are then applied to the volume-filling weather model to obtain a weather-display model, the weather-display model including a display-parameter value for each of a plurality of 3D coordinates. Then, the weather-display model is displayed via the near-eye display system, co-registered to the representation of the geographic region.

Holographic illustration of weather

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