A method for presenting an object from a real-world environment on a screen by a head mounted display (HMD), comprising: receiving live images of the real-world environment proximal to a user wearing the HMD, the images received from two or more forward facing cameras of the HMD and processed by a processor of the HMD for rendering on the screen; detecting a gaze direction of the user wearing the HMD, using one or more gaze detecting cameras of the HMD that are directed toward one or each eye of the user; analyzing the images to identify an object captured in the images of the real-world environment that correlates with the gaze direction of the user, wherein the object is identified by computing coordinates of the object aligning with the gaze direction within frames of images of the real-world environment captured by the one or more forward facing cameras, wherein the identified object is currently rendered at a first virtual distance; and generating a signal to adjust a zoom factor for a lens of one forward facing camera so as to cause an image of the object defined by the coordinates to be made bigger, wherein adjusting the zoom factor causes a change in the virtual distance at which the image of the object defined by the coordinates is rendered on the screen of the HMD from the first virtual distance to a second virtual distance, wherein the second virtual distance is shorter than the first virtual distance, the second virtual distance being a virtual distance that makes the object appear as having been brought closer to the relative position of the user, wherein the screen of the HMD is split into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the image of the object adjusted by the zoom factor and defined by the coordinates is rendered in the first portion while the real-world environment is rendered in the second portion without interruption. receiving live images of the real-world environment proximal to a user wearing the HMD, the images received from two or more forward facing cameras of the HMD and processed by a processor of the HMD for rendering on the screen; detecting a gaze direction of the user wearing the HMD, using one or more gaze detecting cameras of the HMD that are directed toward one or each eye of the user; analyzing the images to identify an object captured in the images of the real-world environment that correlates with the gaze direction of the user, wherein the object is identified by computing coordinates of the object aligning with the gaze direction within frames of images of the real-world environment captured by the one or more forward facing cameras, wherein the identified object is currently rendered at a first virtual distance; and generating a signal to adjust a zoom factor for a lens of one forward facing camera so as to cause an image of the object defined by the coordinates to be made bigger, wherein adjusting the zoom factor causes a change in the virtual distance at which the image of the object defined by the coordinates is rendered on the screen of the HMD from the first virtual distance to a second virtual distance, wherein the second virtual distance is shorter than the first virtual distance, the second virtual distance being a virtual distance that makes the object appear as having been brought closer to the relative position of the user, wherein the screen of the HMD is split into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the image of the object adjusted by the zoom factor and defined by the coordinates is rendered in the first portion while the real-world environment is rendered in the second portion without interruption. <EOS>