Gaze-based virtual content control

A system comprising:

• a display module, to a user wearing a head-mounted display system, an artificial scene
• comprising an opaque exterior of a virtual house;
• and
• a gaze-detection module, stored in memory, that:
• identifies the user's eye gaze based on eye gazing data collected by one or more sensors in the head-mounted display system;
• and
• determines that the user's eye gaze is focused at a gaze depth corresponding to an interior portion of the virtual house, which is at least partially covered from the user's field of view by the opaque exterior, wherein the display module, in response to the gaze-detection module determining that the user's eye gaze is focused at the gaze depth corresponding to the interior portion of the virtual house, increases the interior portion's visibility to the user;
• and
• at least one physical processor configured to execute the display module and the gaze-detection module.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• display, to a user wearing a head-mounted display system, an artificial scene;
• comprising an opaque exterior of a virtual house;
• identify the user's eye gaze based on eye gazing data collected by one or more sensors in the head-mounted display system;
• determine that the user's eye gaze is focused at a gaze depth corresponding to an interior portion of the virtual house, which is at least partially covered from the user's field of view by the opaque exterior;
• and
• in response to determining that the user's eye gaze is focused at the gaze depth corresponding to the interior portion of the virtual house, increase the interior portion's visibility to the user.