Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Stephen G Latta

Darren Bennett

Kevin Geisner

Jason Bradley Scott

Brian James Mount

Ben J Sugden

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Michael Scavezze

Jonathan Steed

Relja Markovic

Kathryn Stone Perez

Wei Zhang

Tony Ambrus

Robert L Crocco, Jr

Cameron Graeme Brown

John Clavin

Alex Aben-Athar Kipman

Benjamin Isaac Vaught

Aaron Daniel Krauss

Alex A Kipman

Shawn Crispin Wright

Brian Murphy

Brian E Keane

Nicholas Fajt

Mike Scavezze

Christopher Harley Willoughby

Joel Deaguero

Sebastian Sylvan

John Bevis

Ben Vaught

Michael J Patten

Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda

Laura K Massey

Peter Tobias Kinnebrew

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Daniel Deptford

Thomas Salter

Jamie Bryant Kirschenbaum

Jedd Chevrier

Phillip Charles Heckinger

Zachary Quarles

Michael Klucher

Pedro Perez

Andrew John Fuller

Jeffrey Neil Margolis

Adam G Poulos

Alexandru Octavian Balan

Mathew Julian Lamb

Ian Douglas McIntyre

Sheridan Martin Small

John Copic

Abby Lin Lee

Ron Amador-Leon

Holly A Hirzel

Rod G Fleck

Derek L Knee

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Drew Edward Steedly

Frederik Schaffalitzky

Kudo Tsunoda

Christopher E Miles

Karim Audrey Luccin

Jedd Perry

David Anthony Evans

Matthew Kaplan

Robert Crocco

Gregory Bishop Bahm

Jack Clevenger

Mike Thomas

Arnulfo Zepeda Navratil

Michael Casey Lanigan

Nicholas Gervase Fajt

Jedd Alexander Chevrier

Daniel Mcculloch

Matthew G Kaplan

Techniques for sharing across environments are described. Generally, different types of input may be employed to share content, such as using a pen, a stylus, a finger, touchless gesture input, and so forth. According to various embodiments, content may be shared between devices in local proximity, and/or between devices that are remote from one another. In at least some embodiments, content is shared based on an identity of a sharing user and/or sharing device.

Sharing across environments

Embodiments related to efficiently constructing an augmented reality environment with global illumination effects are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of displaying an augmented reality image via a display device. The method includes receiving image data, the image data capturing an image of a local environment of the display device, and identifying a physical feature of the local environment via the image data. The method further includes constructing an augmented reality image of a virtual structure for display over the physical feature in spatial registration with the physical feature from a viewpoint of a user, the augmented reality image comprising a plurality of modular virtual structure segments arranged in adjacent locations to form the virtual structure feature, each modular virtual structure segment comprising a pre-computed global illumination effect, and outputting the augmented reality image to the display device.

Constructing augmented reality environment with pre-computed lighting

Techniques for ink in an electronic document are described. According to various implementations, techniques described herein provide a rich set of tools which allow a user to markup an electronic document such as a web page, not only in static 2D where the user writes on top of a document, but in dynamic 3D. In addition, when adding 3D elements to an electronic document, the 3D elements are added based on awareness of the content of the electronic document and can adapt its content in relationship to the document.

Ink in an electronic document

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

Embodiments that relate to interacting with a physical object in a mixed reality environment via a head-mounted display are disclosed. In one embodiment a mixed reality interaction program identifies an object based on an image from captured by the display. An interaction context for the object is determined based on an aspect of the mixed reality environment. A profile for the physical object is queried to determine interaction modes for the object. A selected interaction mode is programmatically selected based on the interaction context. A user input directed at the object is received via the display and interpreted to correspond to a virtual action based on the selected interaction mode. The virtual action is executed with respect to a virtual object associated with the physical object to modify an appearance of the virtual object. The modified virtual object is then displayed via the display.

Mixed reality interactions

A head-mounted display includes a see-through display and a virtual reality engine. The see-through display is configured to visually augment an appearance of a physical space to a user viewing the physical space through the see-through display. The virtual reality engine is configured to cause the see-through display to visually present a virtual monitor that appears to be integrated with the physical space to a user viewing the physical space through the see-through display.

Augmented reality virtual monitor

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

The technology provides contextual personal information by a mixed reality display device system being worn by a user. A user inputs person selection criteria, and the display system sends a request for data identifying at least one person in a location of the user who satisfy the person selection criteria to a cloud based application with access to user profile data for multiple users. Upon receiving data identifying the at least one person, the display system outputs data identifying the person if he or she is within the field of view. An identifier and a position indicator of the person in the location is output if not. Directional sensors on the display device may also be used for determining a position of the person. Cloud based executing software can identify and track the positions of people based on image and non-image data from display devices in the location.

Providing location occupancy analysis via a mixed reality device

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.

Holographic illustration of weather

A head-mounted display system includes a see-through display that is configured to visually augment an appearance of a physical environment to a user viewing the physical environment through the see-through display. Graphical content presented via the see-through display is created by modeling the ambient lighting conditions of the physical environment.

Virtual light in augmented reality

A system for generating a virtual gaming environment based on features identified within a real-world environment, and adapting the virtual gaming environment over time as the features identified within the real-world environment change is described. Utilizing the technology described, a person wearing a head-mounted display device (HMD) may walk around a real-world environment and play a virtual game that is adapted to that real-world environment. For example, the HMD may identify environmental features within a real-world environment such as five grassy areas and two cars, and then spawn virtual monsters based on the location and type of the environmental features identified. The location and type of the environmental features identified may vary depending on the particular real-world environment in which the HMD exists and therefore each virtual game may look different depending on the particular real-world environment.

Augmented reality spaces with adaptive rules

A system and related methods for a resource management in a head-mounted display device are provided. In one example, the head-mounted display device includes a plurality of sensors and a display system for presenting holographic objects. A resource management program is configured to operate a selected sensor in a default power mode to achieve a selected fidelity. The program receives user-related information from one or more of the sensors, and determines whether target information is detected. Where target information is detected, the program adjusts the selected sensor to operate in a reduced power mode that uses less power than the default power mode.

Display resource management

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