Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nathalie Henry Riche

Michel Pahud

Eyal Ofek

Christophe Hurter

Bongshin Lee

Steven Mark Drucker

Sheelagh Carpendale

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Timothy Garry Dwyer

Sasa Junuzovic

Adam Samuel Riddle

William Arthur Stewart Buxton

Hugo Karl Denis Romat

Christopher Mervin Collins

Mary P Czerwinski

Gonzalo Alberto Ramos

Xiaoji Chen

Lev Boris Nachmanson

Chunjong Park

Nicolai Marquardt

Molly Jane Nicholas

Alexander E Holroyd

Jeffrey Browne

Cody G Dunne

Basak Alper

Fereshteh Amini

Tim Dwyer

Charles David Stolper

Andres Monroy Hernandez

Tim Sherwood

Methods and systems for rendering augmented reality display data to locations of a physical presentation environment based on a presentation configuration are provided. A physical presentation environment configuration may be accessed that includes locations of a physical presentation environment for mapping augmented reality display data. The augmented reality display data may include a plurality of augmented reality objects that are rendered for display. Presentation attributes of the augmented reality display data may be used in conjunction with the presentation configuration for mapping and rendering the augmented reality display data. The rendered augmented reality display data may be dynamically interactive, and may be generated based on previous presentation configurations, mapping preferences, mapping limitations, and/or other factors.

Presenting augmented reality display data in physical presentation environments

Methods and systems are provided that are directed to automatically adjusting a user interface based on tilt position of a digital drawing board. The digital drawing board has a tiltable screen with a sensor. The tiltable screen may be fixed in a stable tilt position. A sensor is used to determine that the digital drawing board has a first tilt position. The digital drawing board displays a first user interface associated with the first tilt position. The first user interface may be associated with a first use mode, and may also be based on an application running on the digital drawing board. When the sensor senses that the digital drawing board has moved from the first tilt position to a second tilt position, it automatically displays a second user interface associated with a second tilt position. The second user interface may be associated with a second use mode.

Tilt-responsive techniques for digital drawing boards

Various systems and techniques for intuitively and non-obstructively obtaining awareness of fellow collaborator views and/or statuses in an augmented reality environment are disclosed. An interaction is detected between a first and second HMD, both collaborative participants of a shared dataset represented in an augmented reality environment. The detected interaction can cause the first HMD to request state information associated with the second HMD. The second HMD can process the request in accordance with a privacy policy to generate a set of visual data as a response to the request. The second HMD can communicate the generated set of visual data to the first HMD, such that the first HMD can render the received set of visual data as additional computer-generated object(s) to be displayed concurrently with its own augmented view. The additional computer-generated object(s) can be positioned in accordance with a real-world or virtualized position of the second HMD, such that the now-visible state information associated with the second HMD does not obstruct a view of the second HMD's user.

Intuitive augmented reality collaboration on visual data

Methods and systems are disclosed for sharing a content item from a secondary computing device to a primary computing device based on a tilt position of the secondary computing device. A sensor on the secondary computing device determines that the secondary computing device has a first tilt position that is associated with a non-sharing mode. The sensor senses that the secondary computing device is tilting from the first tilt position towards a second tilt position that is associated with a full sharing mode. In response, the content item is begun to be shared with the primary computing device. An amount of the content item that is shared with the primary computing device is continued to be increased as long as the sensor continues to sense that the secondary computing device is tilting from the first tilt position towards the second tilt position. The sensor senses that the secondary computing device has reached the second tilt position and shares the entire content item with the primary computing device.

Tilt-responsive techniques for sharing content

In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a multi-device mixed interactivity system are provided. The interactivity system includes paired mixed-input devices for interacting and controlling virtual objects. In operation, a selection profile associated with a virtual object is accessed. The selection profile is generated based on a selection input determined using real input associated with a selection device and virtual input associated with a mixed-reality device. The selection device has a first display and the mixed-reality device has a second display that both display the virtual object. An annotation input for the virtual object based on a selected portion corresponding to the selection profile is received. An annotation profile based on the annotation input is generated. The annotation profile includes annotation profile attributes for annotating a portion of the virtual object. An annotation of the selected portion of the virtual reality object is caused to be displayed.

Annotation using a multi-device mixed interactivity system

Methods and systems are provided that are directed to automatically adjusting a user interface based on tilt position of a digital drawing board. The digital drawing board has a tiltable screen with a sensor. The tiltable screen may be fixed in a stable tilt position. A sensor is used to determine that the digital drawing board has a first tilt position. The digital drawing board displays a first user interface associated with the first tilt position. The first user interface may be associated with a first use mode. The first user interface may also be based on an application running on the digital drawing board. When the sensor senses that the digital drawing board has moved from the first tilt position to a second tilt position, it automatically displays a second user interface associated with a second tilt position. The second user interface has different functionality than the first user interface. The second user interface may be associated with a second use mode that is different than the first use mode but may be based on the same application as the first user interface.

In various embodiments, computerized systems and methods for displacement oriented interaction with objects in a computer-mediated environment are provided. In one embodiment, the system detects a wearable device moved with a displacement transversal to a longitudinal axis of the wearable device. If the system determines that the displacement is within a displacement range associated with an actionable item, the system may select the actionable item or activate an operation associated with the actionable item, such as modifying an object in the computer-mediated reality environment.

Displacement oriented interaction in computer-mediated reality

Systems and methods for enabling user-interactions with virtual objects (VOs) included in immersive environments (IEs) are provided. A head-mounted display (HMD) device is communicatively coupled with a hover-sensing (HS) device, via a communication session. The HMD device provides an IE to a wearer by displaying a field-of-view (FOV) that includes a VO. The user executes user-interactions, such as 2D and/or 3D hand gestures, fingertip gestures, multi-fingertip gestures, stylus gestures, hover gestures, and the like. The HS device detects the user-interactions and generates interaction data. The interaction data is provided to the HMD device via the communication session. The HMD device updates the FOV and/or the VO based on the interaction data. A physical overlay that includes a 3D protrusion is coupled with the HS device. The overlay is transparent to the hover-sensing capabilities of the HS device. The protrusion provides tactile feedback to the user for the user-interactions.

Hover-based user-interactions with virtual objects within immersive environments

In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a multi-device mixed interactivity system are provided. The interactivity system includes paired mixed-input devices for interacting and controlling virtual objects. In operation, a selection input associated with a virtual object is accessed. The selection input is based on real input associated with a selection device and virtual input associated with a mixed-reality device. The selection device has a first display that displays the virtual object and the mixed-reality device has a second display that displays the virtual object. A selection profile is generated based on the selection input. The selection profile comprises one or more selection profile attributes for isolating a portion of the virtual object. A selected portion of the virtual object is determined based on the selection profile. The selected portion of the virtual reality object is caused to be displayed on the first display of the selection device.

Selection using a multi-device mixed interactivity system

Systems and techniques from displaying virtual representations of real-world spaces and objects in various environments are disclosed. A source environment at a first location can be scanned by a head-mounted display (HMD) device to generate three-dimensional datasets corresponding to the physical environment at the first location. The three-dimensional datasets can include detected physical properties associated with the physical environment. At a second location, the HMD can re-create the source environment, and render for display a virtual representation of the physical environment based on the three-dimensional datasets, where the virtual representation of the source environment is rendered to maintain any one of the detected physical properties associated with the physical environment. Further, at the second location, the HMD can enable a user to view one or more physical objects within the virtual representation of the physical environment such that the physical object is perceived to be within the source environment.

Virtually representing spaces and objects while maintaining physical properties

A link curvature processing module enables a user with the ability to control the curvature of links in a node-link diagram. As a node-link diagram is displayed to a user, the user may interact with the diagram and adjust the curvature of one or more links in the diagram to improve the readability of the diagram. The user's modification to the curvature of a link alters the shape of the link so that the position of the nodes connected to the link does not change. By providing the user with such control, the user is able to tailor the visual display of the links to the user's preference.

Interactive control of the curvature of links

The claimed subject matter generates animated data visualization videos. A user interface is displayed that includes a clip library panel, a clips panel, and a configurations panel. The clip library panel includes available data clips; the clips panel includes multiple configured data clips; and, the configurations panel includes properties of a selected data clip from the clips panel. A user interface for entering a dataset is displayed. Multiple data clips dragged from the clip library panel to the clips panel, are added to the clips panel. Configuration settings for a dragged and dropped data clip are displayed in the configurations panel. One or more properties of the data clip are updated. An animated data visualization video is generated based on the dragged and dropped data clips and updated properties, and in a sequence specified in the clips panel.

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Nathalie Henry Riche