Navigating content using a physical object

摘要

Technology is disclosed herein to help a user navigate through large amounts of content while wearing a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device such as a head mounted display (HMD). The user can use a physical object such as a book to navigate through content being presented in the HMD. In one embodiment, a book has markers on the pages that allow the system to organize the content. The book could have real content, but it could be blank other than the markers. As the user flips through the book, the system recognizes the markers and presents content associated with the respective marker in the HMD.

主权项

1. A method for navigating content, comprising:
receiving, by an electronic device coupled to a camera and a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display, input that specifies what content is to be navigated by a user wearing the see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display, the content comprising an ordered data set from a calendar program that is organized based on a unit of time; dividing, by the electronic device, the ordered data set into divisions based on the unit of time; associating, by the electronic device, each of the divisions with a unique marker in a physical object that includes an ordered sequence of pages, the unique markers being on different ones of the pages and the divisions being assigned to different ones of the pages in accordance with an order of the ordered data set, the unit of time for each division being assigned to a unique marker; identifying the unique markers in the physical object using the camera as the user manipulates the physical object, including identifying the unique markers in the ordered sequence of pages; determining, by the electronic device, what division of the content is associated with each of the uniquely identified markers; and presenting images representing the divisions of the content associated with the uniquely identified markers in the see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device, including presenting images representing the unit of time for the respective divisions in response to identifying the unique markers.