Somatic and somatosensory guidance in virtual and augmented reality environments

A procedural guidance system comprising:

• an augmented reality device;
• and
• logic configured to:
• detect first user interactions of a first user during an interactive guided process;
• display to a second user utilizing the augmented reality device one or more representations of one or more first user hands of the first user carrying out the interactive guided process;
• detect second user interactions of the second user during the interactive guided process, wherein the second user attempts to superimpose one or more representations of one or more second user hands with the one or more representations of the one or more first user hands in a display generated by the augmented reality device;
• determine if the one or more representations of the one or more first user hands and the one or more representations of the one or more second user hands are superimposed in the display;
• and
• in response to determining none of the representations of the one or more first user hands and the one or more second user hands being superimposed in the display, generate corrective action signals for the first user, the second user, or both;
• and
• In response to determining at least one or more fingertips in a representation of a second user hand that are in contact with an object being superimposed on one or more corresponding fingertips in an additional representation of a corresponding first user hand in the display without other portions of the first user hand and the second user in each representation being superimposed, generate a continue signal for at least the second user or permitting a procedure in the interactive guided process to advance to a next step.

A procedural guidance system comprising:

• an augmented reality device;
• and
• logic configured to:
• detect first user interactions of a first user during an interactive guided process;
• display to a second user utilizing the augmented reality device one or more representations of one or more first user hands of the first user carrying out the interactive guided process;
• detect second user interactions of the second user during the interactive guided process, wherein the second user attempts to superimpose one or more representations of one or more second user hands with the one or more representations of the one or more first user hands in a display generated by the augmented reality device;
• determine if the one or more representations of the one or more first user hands and the one or more representations of the one or more second user hands are superimposed in the display;
• and
• in response to determining none of the representations of the one or more first user hands and the one or more second user hands being superimposed in the display, generate corrective action signals for the first user, the second user, or both,
• wherein at least one of the representations of the first user hands or the second user hands comprise an internal anatomical map of a hand.