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Jeremy Bruce Kersey

Andrew Jackson Klein

Ethan Harris Arnowitz

Kyle Mouritsen

Cory Ryan Bramall

Justin Thomas Savino

William Ben Hanke

Stephen Michael Lucas

Jonathon Burnham Cobb

Stuart John Mayhew

Melissa Hellmund Vega

Victor Jia

Hendry Effendy

Cedric Lee

Cedric Caillaud

Darren Bennett

William Michael Mozell

Darren Alexander Bennett

David Seymour

Enrico William Guld

Preetinderpal Singh Mangat

Henry Stuart Denison Watson

Dashan Yue

Kirk Christopher Gibbons

Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.

Multi-factor intention determination for augmented reality (AR) environment control

Systems and methods for attaching a virtual input device to a virtual object in a mixed reality (MR) environment are provided. The system includes a memory, a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, and a display device. The display device is configured to display a MR environment provided by at least one application implemented by the processor. The mixed reality environment includes a virtual object corresponding to an application, and a virtual input device. The at least one application docks the virtual input device to the virtual object with an offset relative to the virtual object.

Intelligent keyboard attachment for mixed reality input

A system may include a memory device to store instructions and data, and at least one processing device to execute the instructions stored in the memory device to: receive a background image and a digital object to be composited onto the background image in a mixed reality view, generate a 2D bounding region for the digital object, select a version of the background image at a pre-defined resolution, overlay the 2D bounding region on the selected version of the background image and obtain a set of samples of the colors of pixels of the selected version along a perimeter of the 2D bounding region, and determine a value for one or more digital lighting sources to illuminate the digital object in the mixed reality view, based, at least in part, on the set of samples.

Real-time compositing in mixed reality

Embodiments described herein enable user interaction with a video segment. A hit-zone file, which includes hit-zone data, is produced and stored for a video segment, wherein the hit-zone data corresponds to spatial regions that define hit-zones for hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is provided to a computing system so that when the computing system displays the video segment the hit-zone file adds hit-zones for the hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is produced separate from the video segment. Each of the hit-zones is defined by a different portion of the hit-zone data and corresponds to a different one of the hidden objects included in the video segment. The spatial regions that define the hit-zones for hidden objects are not visible to a user of the computing system that views the video segment with the hit-zones added.

Enabling user interactions with video segments

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