Surface aware lens

A method comprising:

• rendering a virtual object to appear at a position in a three-dimensional space within a camera view;
• and
• maintaining, via a redundant tracking subsystem comprising a set of tracking subsystems, the virtual object rendered at the position in the three-dimensional space while detecting one or more interruptions to one or more tracking indicia used by the redundant tracking subsystem, the detecting of the one or more interruptions to the one or more tracking indicia comprising determining a tracking indicia used by a first tracking subsystem of the redundant tracking subsystem to track the virtual object is unavailable, the maintaining of the virtual object rendered at the position in the three-dimensional space comprising switching from tracking the virtual object in six degrees of freedom (6DoF) via the first tracking subsystem to tracking the virtual object in three degrees of freedom (3DoF) via a second tracking subsystem based on the tracking indicia being unavailable.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that includes instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• rendering a virtual object to appear at a position in a three-dimensional space within a camera view;
• and
• maintaining, via a redundant tracking subsystem comprising a set of tracking subsystems, the virtual object rendered at the position in the three-dimensional space while detecting one or more interruptions to one or more tracking indicia used by the redundant tracking subsystem, the detecting of the one or more interruptions to the one or more tracking indicia comprising determining a tracking indicia used by a first tracking subsystem of the redundant tracking subsystem to track the virtual object is unavailable, the maintaining of the virtual object rendered at the position in the three-dimensional space comprising switching from tracking the virtual object in six degrees of freedom (6DoF) via the first tracking subsystem to tracking the virtual object in three degrees of freedom (3DoF) via a second tracking subsystem based on the tracking indicia being unavailable.