Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jedd Chevrier

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Karim Audrey Luccin

John Copic

Jason Bradley Scott

Jeffrey Jesus Evertt

David Anthony Evans

Matthew Jon Paul

Gregory Bishop Bahm

Timothy James Schutz

Michael Casey Lanigan

The techniques introduced here enable a display system, such as an HMD device, to generate and display to a user a holographic structure matching a real-world structure. In some embodiments vertices, edges and planes of the holographic schematics are generated via the use of a peripheral tool that is positioned by a user. In other embodiments, other user input indicates the bounds of the holographic schematic. In response to user action, a holographic schematic is made to appear including corresponding real-world size measurements. The corresponding measurements are used to develop a holographic structure that integrates with the holographic schematic.

Mixed reality measurement with peripheral tool

A technique is described herein for placing a virtual object within any type of modified-reality environment. The technique involves receiving the user's specification of plural values in plural stages. The plural values collectively define an object display state. The technique places the virtual object in the modified-reality environment in accordance with the object display state. Overall, the technique allows the user to place the virtual object in the modified-reality environment with high precision and low ambiguity by virtue of its guided piecemeal specification of the object display state.

Multi-step placement of virtual objects

Technology is proposed to enable navigating a holographic image. A moving object, such as a hand, is tracked and a gesture is recognized. In response to recognizing the gesture, a virtual shape is created at the location of the recognized gesture. The shape has at least one dimension. The holographic image is moved based on current position of the moving object with respect to the virtual shape.

Navigating a holographic image

Systems are provided for synchronizing and desynchronizing mixed-reality datasets between multiple devices. The systems identify multiple users in a mixed-reality environment. The mixed-reality environment is defined by a global mixed-reality dataset. The systems display a synchronized view of the global mixed-reality dataset to each of the multiple users within a shared coordinate system. Additionally, the systems receive a command from a first user within the multiple users to desynchronize from the multiple users. The systems display to the first user a first desynchronized view of the global mixed-reality dataset.

Synching and desyncing a shared view in a multiuser scenario

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.

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