Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Robert Thomas

Christian Michael Sadak

Kenneth Liam Kiemele

Adam G Poulos

Cameron Graeme Brown

Aaron Daniel Krauss

Geraldine G Wade

Aaron Burns

Marcus Philip Ghaly

Charlene Mary Jeune

Christian Klein

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Gregg Robert Wygonik

Jeffrey Sipko

John Benjamin Hesketh

Thomas Salter

Roger Sebastian Sylvan

Sophors Khut

Cheyne Rory Quin Mathey-Owens

Deborah Ann Hanley

Alicia Hungerford Kramer

Ricardo Arturo Espinoza Reyes

Charles W Lapp, Iii

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Alexandre Da Veiga

Anthony James Ambrus

Nicholas Fajt

Michael Scavezze

Wissam S Kazan

Bryant Daniel Hawthorne

Rui Zhu

Omer Bilal Orhan

Andrew Austin Jackson

Matthew Kaplan

Keping Zhao

Richard Wifall

Jeffrey David Smith

Jon Paulovich

Megan Ann Lindsay

Adam Gabriel Poulos

Optimizations are provided for facilitating an improved transition between a real-world environment and a virtual reality environment. Initially, use of a HMD is detected and one or more real-world physical objects within a threshold proximity to the HMD are identified. Subsequently, a replicated environment, which includes virtual representations of the real-world physical object(s), is obtained and rendered in a virtual reality display. The replicated environment is transitioned out of view and a VR environment is subsequently rendered in the virtual reality display. In some instances, rendering of virtual representations of real-world physical objects into the VR environment occurs is response to detected triggering event.

Transitioning into a VR environment and warning HMD users of real-world physical obstacles

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to receiving virtual reality input. An example provides a head-mounted display device comprising a sensor system, a display, a logic machine, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine. The instructions are executable to execute a 3D virtual reality experience on the head-mounted display device, track, via the sensor system, a touch-sensitive input device, render, on the display, in a 3D location in the 3D virtual reality experience based on the tracking of the touch-sensitive input device, a user interface, receive, via a touch sensor of the touch-sensitive input device, a user input, and, in response to receiving the user input, control the 3D virtual reality experience to thereby vary visual content being rendered on the display.

Virtual reality input

Techniques are described herein that are capable of making a state-based determination of information to be displayed on a screen region of a hinge that is coupled to other screen regions. For instance, a state of a hinge that is coupled between a first screen region and a second screen region may be determined. Information that is to be displayed on a third screen region that is provided on the hinge may be determine based at least in part on the state of the hinge.

Device having a screen region on a hinge coupled between other screen regions

A system and method are disclosed for building virtual content from within a virtual environment using virtual tools to build and modify the virtual content.

Building holographic content using holographic tools

Examples disclosed relate to displaying virtual objects. One example provides, on a display device comprising a camera and a display, a method comprising acquiring, via the camera, image data imaging an environment, receiving a user input requesting display of a three-dimensional virtual object, comparing dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to dimensional information for a field of view of the display device, modifying the three-dimensional virtual object based upon comparing the dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to the dimensional information for the field of view to obtain a modified three-dimensional virtual object, and displaying the modified three-dimensional virtual object via the display.

Displaying three-dimensional virtual objects based on field of view

Motion and/or rotation of an input mechanism can be tracked and/or analyzed to determine limits on a user's range of motion and/or a user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space. The user's range of motion and/or the user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space may be limited by a personal restriction for the user (e.g., a broken arm). The user's range of motion and/or the user's range of rotation in three-dimensional space may additionally or alternatively be limited by an environmental restriction (e.g., a physical object in a room). Accordingly, the techniques described herein can take steps to accommodate the personal restriction and/or the environmental restriction thereby optimizing user interactions involving the input mechanism and a virtual object.

Interaction with virtual objects based on determined restrictions

Disclosed are a method and corresponding apparatus to enable a user of a display system to manipulate holographic objects. Multiple holographic user interface objects capable of being independently manipulated by a user are displayed to the user, overlaid on a real-world view of a 3D physical space in which the user is located. In response to a first user action, the holographic user interface objects are made to appear to be combined into a holographic container object that appears at a first location in the 3D physical space. In response to the first user action or a second user action, the holographic container object is made to appear to relocate to a second location in the 3D physical space. The holographic user interface objects are then made to appear to deploy from the holographic container object when the holographic container object appears to be located at the second location.

Portable holographic user interface for an interactive 3D environment

Disclosed is a method, implemented in a visualization device, to assist a user in placing 3D objects. In certain embodiments the method includes displaying, on a display area of the visualization device, to a user, various virtual 3D objects overlaid on a real-world view of a 3D physical space. The method can further include a holding function, in which a first object, of the various virtual 3D objects, is displayed on the display area so that it appears to move through the 3D physical space in response to input from the user, which may be merely a change in the user's gaze direction. A second object is then identified as a target object for a snap function, based on the detected gaze of the user, the snap function being an operation that causes the first object to move to a location on a surface of the target object.

Assisted object placement in a three-dimensional visualization system

In one embodiment, a mobile devicemay execute a mobile clientto access a remote clienton a remote computer device. A mobile clientmay connect to a data network. The mobile clientmay establish a peer-to-peer connection with a remote clientexecuting on a remote computer deviceover the data network

Remote access from mobile devices

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Michael Robert Thomas