Varying extended reality content based on risk level of a driving environment

A system for varying extended reality content in a video, the system comprising:

• a display located within a vehicle, the display being a video pass through display;
• one or more cameras;
• and
• one or more processors operatively connected to the one or more cameras and to the display, the one or more processors being programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
• causing the video captured by the one or more cameras to be presented on the display, the video including extended reality content;
• determining a risk level of an external environment of the vehicle based on a complexity of the external environment of the vehicle, the complexity being based on at least one of:
• a number of objects detected in the external environment, a density of objects detected in the external environment, a number of different directions that objects detected in the external environment are moving, a number of different types of objects detected in the external environment, a number of a particular type of object detected in the external environment, an amount of occlusions of individual objects detected in the external environment, and a degree of agreement in data captured by one or more sensors of the vehicle;
• and
• causing an amount of the extended reality content presented in the video to be varied based on the risk level, the amount being proportional to the risk level of the external environment of the vehicle, the amount including:
• a number of augmented objects in the video;
• or
• a number of extended reality overlays over one or more objects and/or one or more portions of the external environment in the video,
• whereby varying the amount of extended reality content signals to a human driver that greater or lesser attention can be paid to the external environment due to the risk level.