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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 30, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Darren Alexander Bennett, Vancouver, CA;
Charla Marie Pereira, Vancouver, CA;
Andrew Jackson Klein, Vancouver, CA;
Robert István Butterworth, Vancouver, CA;
Sean Robert Puller, Burnaby, CA;
Tsz Fung Wan, Port Coquitlam, CA;
Kevin Thomas Mather, Vancouver, CA;
Dean Alan Wadsworth, North Vancouver, CA;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology is generally directed to mixed reality devices. In one example of the technology, a mixed-reality view is caused to be provided to an operator, wherein the mixed-reality view includes both a real-world environment of the operator and holographic aspects. The operator is enabled to navigate among a plurality of steps of a task, such that for at least one step of the plurality of steps of the task, while the operator is navigated to the step of the task: the mixed-reality view is caused to include at least one instruction associated with the step. The mixed-reality view is caused to include a hologram at a real-world location in the real-world environment at which work associated with the step is to be performed. The mixed-reality view is caused to continually include a visual tether from the instruction to the real-world location.