Management of content in a 3D holographic environment

US9508195B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Joseph van den Heuvel · Redmond, US
• Ken Ouellette · Boxborough, US
• Ben Sugden · Woodinville, US
• Todd Omotani · Redmond, US
• Marcus Tanner · Old Windsor, GB
• Greg Alt · Seattle, US
• Michael W. Hale · Orlando, US
• Jeff Sutherland · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 3, 2014
• Grant date: Nov 29, 2016
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B2027/0178
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods for managing content within an interactive augmented reality environment are described. An augmented reality environment may be provided to an end user of a head-mounted display device (HMD) in which content (e.g., webpages) may be displayed to the end user using one or more curved slates that are positioned on a virtual cylinder that appears body-locked to the end user. The virtual cylinder may be located around the end user with the end user positioned in the middle of the virtual cylinder such that the one or more curved slates appear to be displayed at the same distance from the end user. The position and size of each of the one or more curved slates may be controlled by the end user using head gestures and a virtual pointer projected onto the virtual cylinder.