Systems and methods for panning a display of a wearable device

A system for panning digital content on a virtual reality display comprising:

• a virtual reality display;
• an eye tracking device;
• a head detection system;
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• determine, with the eye tracking device, a gaze direction of a user;
• determine, with the head detection system, a head direction of the user;
• and
• pan content displayed on the virtual reality display in a particular direction and at a particular speed wherein:
• the particular direction is based on the gaze direction and the head direction;
• and
• the particular speed is based on the gaze direction and the head direction, wherein the particular speed is increased when the gaze direction corresponds with the head direction;
• determine, during panning of content, via the eye tracking device, that the gaze direction of the user has returned to a neutral position;
• and
• cause the content to stop panning and automatically re-center the content on the virtual reality display based at least in part on the gaze direction of the user returning to the neutral position.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for panning content on a virtual reality display that when executed cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining a gaze direction of a user based on data from an eye tracking device;
• determining a head direction of the user based on data from a movement detection system;
• and
• panning content displayed on a virtual reality display in a particular direction and at a particular speed wherein:
• the particular direction is based on the gaze direction and the head direction;
• and
• the particular speed is based on the gaze direction and the head direction, wherein the particular speed is increased when the gaze direction correlates with the head direction;
• determining, during panning of the content, via the eye tracking device, that the gaze direction of the user has returned to a neutral position;
• and
• causing the content to stop panning and automatically re-centering the content on the virtual reality display based at least in part on the gaze direction of the user returning to the neutral position.