Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Richard Wifall

Jason Bradley Scott

Diego E Salume

Charles Tatsuya Sinex

Cameron Graeme Brown

Aaron Daniel Krauss

Michael Scavezze

Robert Thomas Held

Anatolie Gavriliuc

Christian Michael Sadak

Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen

Michael Robert Thomas

Michelle Chua

Gregory Alt

Todd Omotani

Riccardo Giraldi

Charlene Mary Jeune

Cheyne Rory Quin Mathey-Owens

Jeffrey David Smith

Joseph Van Den Heuvel

Megan Ann Lindsay

Michael Thomas

A head mounted display (HMD) device is provided that includes a display, a position and orientation sensor, and speakers. The HMD device includes a processor configured to receive map data of a three-dimensional environment, receive a three-dimensional data set, detect a predefined feature in the three-dimensional data set, place a spatial audio emitter anchor in the three-dimensional environment in a location where the feature was detected, the spatial audio emitter having an emitter boundary, determine a current location of a user in the virtual environment based on a signal from the sensor, display the map data of the three-dimensional environment with a graphical representation of the three-dimensional data set based on the determined current location of the user, and responsive to determining that the location of the user is outside of the boundary, play the spatial audio emitter in a spatial audio mode via the near-ear speakers.

Spatial audio for three-dimensional data sets

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

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to identifying and localizing devices in an environment via an augmented reality display device. One example provides, on a portable augmented reality computing device, a method including establishing a coordinate frame for an environment, and discovering, via a location-sensitive input device, a location of a physical manifestation of the device in the environment, assigning a device location for the device in the coordinate frame based upon the location of the physical manifestation, and modifying an output of the portable augmented reality computing device based upon a change in relative position between the portable augmented reality computing device and the physical manifestation in environment.

Localizing devices in augmented reality environment

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