Pinch and hold gesture navigation on a head-mounted display

A method comprising:

• determining an occurrence of movement of fingers of a hand of a user, wherein the user is wearing a head-mounted display (HMD) on a head of the user and has a hand controller;
• analyzing the movement of the fingers of the hand to determine that a pinch and hold gesture is performed by two of the fingers of the hand;
• and
• generating visual cue data such that a scene rendered on the HMD is modified to render a visual cue indicative of a location, in the scene, associated with the pinch and hold gesture, wherein the pinch and hold gesture enables control of a zoom-in or a zoom-out of a virtual object displayed in the scene;
• and
• disabling movement of the scene with a movement of the HMD during a time period in which the pinch and hold gesture is active.

A computer-readable medium containing program instructions, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out a plurality of operations of:

• determining an occurrence of movement of fingers of a hand of a user, wherein the user is wearing a head-mounted display (HMD) on a head of the user and has a hand controller;
• analyzing the movement of the fingers of the hand to determine that a pinch and hold gesture is performed by two of the fingers of the hand;
• generating visual cue data such that a scene rendered on the HMD is modified to render a visual cue indicative of a location, in the scene, associated with the pinch and hold gesture, wherein the pinch and hold gesture enables control of a zoom-in or a zoom-out of a virtual object displayed in the scene;
• and
• disabling movement of the virtual reality object in the scene with a movement of the HMD during a time period in which the pinch and hold gesture is active.

A system comprising:

• a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to be worn by a user;
• a computing device configured to identify a hand of the user and analyze movement of fingers of the hand of the user to determine that a pinch and hold gesture is performed by two of the fingers of the hand,
• wherein the computing device is configured to generate visual cue data such that a scene rendered on the HMD is modified to render a visual cue indicative of a location, in the scene, associated with the pinch and hold gesture, wherein the pinch and hold gesture enables control of a zoom-in or a zoom-out of a virtual object displayed in the scene,
• wherein during a time period in which the pinch and hold gesture is active, the computing device does not move the scene with a movement of the HMD.