Patent ID: 8046719

Claim:
A system, comprising: a logic unit for managing data in a plurality of applications; a wearable display device for visually displaying the data received from the logic unit whereby a user can receive data from the wearable display; an augmented reality representation of computer-generated graphical information overlaid on an image of a real world; an interactive input device; a tracking system to capture data representing the position of the wearable display device, relative to the interactive input device; means for displaying an augmented reality representation of a virtual desktop on said wearable display device, the virtual desktop comprising a plurality of functional interfaces representing said applications, wherein the interfaces comprise at least one of technical information and control functions, accessed using said interactive input device, wherein said virtual desktop is arranged expanded in a 3D space so that the virtual desktop is shaped as a virtual sphere surrounding the user and configured to display the functional interfaces at an optional depth in the sphere, such that the interfaces are simultaneously displayed, and wherein the interactive input device is configured to interact with the virtual desktop to manipulate the interfaces in the 3D space, wherein the expansion of said virtual desktop is 360 degrees in three degrees of freedom, and wherein the manipulation of the functional interfaces comprises at least one of navigating among, movement, rotation, scaling, or locking in the 3D space coordinated using polar or Cartesian coordinates, minimizing, zooming in, zooming out, selecting data, entering data, copying data, pasting data, or changing data; and a camera to capture a live video stream of the environment corresponding to a view of the real world of the user, wherein the virtual graphics are overlaid on the video of said real world forming said augmented reality representation of a virtual desktop.