Ultra low friction gestural interface for artificial reality

A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process for an artificial reality system to respond to gestural input, the process comprising:

• receiving, from a gesture-tracking system, a pinch gesture in relation to an event trigger, wherein the pinch gesture is received in response to the gesture-tracking system detecting a tip of a thumb of a user and a tip of one other finger of the user touching each other;
• determining a first action, of multiple actions associated with the pinch gesture, based on a mapping of A) a context determined when the pinch gesture was made to B) the first action of the multiple actions associated with the pinch gesture, wherein the context includes one or more of a discernable state of the user, surroundings of the user, and one or more recent actions of the user relative to when the pinch gesture was made;
• in response to the pinch gesture, taking the first action mapped to the pinch gesture in the context;
• receiving, from the gesture-tracking system, a thumb-swipe or snap gesture, wherein the thumb-swipe or the snap gesture is received in response to the gesture-tracking system detecting either A) that the user has moved, above a threshold speed, the tip of the thumb away and to the side from the tip of the one other finger or B) that the user has moved the tip of the thumb away from the tip of the one other finger and along a side of the one other finger;
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• in response to the thumb-swipe or snap gesture, taking a second action mapped to the thumb-swipe or snap gesture.

An artificial reality computing system for responding to gestural input, the artificial reality computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform a process comprising:
• receiving, from a gesture-tracking system, a pinch gesture in relation to an event trigger, wherein the pinch gesture is received in response to the gesture-tracking system detecting a tip of a thumb of a user and a tip of one other finger of the user touching each other;
• determining a first action, of multiple actions associated with the pinch gesture, based on a mapping of A) a context determined when the pinch gesture was made to B) the first action of the multiple actions associated with the pinch gesture, wherein the context includes one or more of a discernable state of the user, surroundings of the user, and one or more recent actions of the user relative to when the pinch gesture was made;
• in response to the pinch gesture, taking the first action mapped to the pinch gesture in the context;
• receiving, from the gesture-tracking system, a thumb-swipe or snap gesture, wherein the thumb-swipe or the snap gesture is received in response to the gesture-tracking system detecting either A) that the user has moved, above a threshold speed, the tip of the thumb away and to the side from the tip of the one other finger or B) that the user has moved the tip of the thumb away from the tip of the one other finger and along a side of the one other finger;
• and
• in response to the thumb-swipe or snap gesture, taking a second action mapped to the thumb-swipe or snap gesture.