Patent ID: 8872853

Claim:
A method for a computing device, comprising: receiving optical sensor information output by an optical sensor system observing a physical environment, the optical sensor system forming a sensory component of a head-mounted display system; receiving position sensor information output by a position sensor system indicating a perspective of the optical sensor system within the physical environment, the position sensor system forming another sensory component of the head-mounted display system; creating an ambient lighting model from the optical sensor information and the position sensor information, the ambient lighting model describing ambient lighting conditions of the physical environment; modeling the physical environment from the optical sensor information and the position sensor information to create a virtual environment; applying the ambient lighting model to the virtual environment including an added virtual object not present in the physical environment to obtain an illuminated virtual object; and rendering a graphical representation of the illuminated virtual object for presentation via a see-through display of the head-mounted display system, the see-through display configured to visually augment an appearance of the physical environment to a user viewing the physical environment through the see-through display.