MIXED-REALITY HEADSET

摘要

A "Mixed-Reality Headset" include an attachment mechanism for a smartphone or other portable computing device. A combination of the smartphone display with various internal headset optics presents both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The Mixed-Reality Headset provides low cost, high performance, easy to use AR and VR experiences with unmodified smartphone hardware, thereby improving user experience and interaction with smartphones. In various implementations, applications associated with the Mixed-Reality Headset consider user movement and tracking (e.g., head, eye, hands, body) and real-world environmental mapping when rendering AR and VR content. The Mixed-Reality Headset easily and quickly transitions between AR and VR scenarios by causing transparent optical members to either pass light or block light, thereby either showing or hiding views of the real world. Additional reflective members are applied to enable smartphone cameras to capture real-world environmental views around the user and/or to track user gaze or eye movements.