Artificial reality system having adaptive degrees of freedom (DOF) selection

A method comprising:

• determining one or more performance indicators associated with an artificial reality system having at least one head mounted display (HMD), wherein the one or more performance indicators comprise at least one of an eye tracking quality, a network performance or latency, a computing resource usage, or a measure of jitter;
• applying one or more policies to the performance indicators to determine that a transition condition has been satisfied;
• and
• selecting, based on the determination that the transition condition has been satisfied, between a first mode in which one or more poses of the HMD within a three dimensional (3D) environment are computed using six degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) and a second mode in which the one or more poses are computed using three degrees-of-freedom (3DOF);
• computing the one or more poses for the HMD within the 3D environment in accordance with the selected mode;
• rendering artificial reality content based on the computed one or more poses;
• and
• outputting, by the HMD, the rendered artificial reality content.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

• determine one or more performance indicators associated with an artificial reality system having at least one head mounted display (HMD), wherein the one or more performance indicators comprise at least one of an eye tracking quality, a network performance or latency, a computing resource usage, or a measure of jitter;
• apply one or more policies to the performance indicators to determine that a transition condition has been satisfied;
• select, based on the determination that the transition condition has been satisfied, between a first mode in which one or more poses of the HMD within a three dimensional (3D) environment are computed using six degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) and a second mode in which the one or more poses are computed using three degrees-of-freedom (3DOF);
• compute the one or more poses for the HMD within the 3D environment in accordance with the selected mode;
• render artificial reality content based on the computed one or more poses;
• and
• output the rendered artificial reality content.