System for three dimensional extension with multiscreen extended reality

A machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving information defining a two-dimensional video content item;
• displaying the two-dimensional video content item on a two-dimensional display system having a viewing plane;
• identifying an object in the two-dimensional video content item, the object being viewable by a user in a video presentation on the two-dimensional display system;
• initiating an immersive experience for displaying to a user on extended reality hardware operated in conjunction with the two-dimensional display system, wherein the immersive experience includes presenting on the extended reality hardware a virtual object presented in a virtual environment with the user and appearing to the user to move from the viewing plane of the two-dimensional display system into the virtual environment with the user, wherein the virtual object is based on the object;
• providing, to the extended reality hardware, data defining the immersive experience;
• receiving user interaction with the virtual object in the virtual environment;
• modifying an aspect of the virtual object responsive to the user interaction with the virtual object;
• and
• providing, to the extended reality hardware, updated data defining a modified aspect of the virtual object.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a video content item for display to a user on a two-dimensional display system, the two-dimensional display system having a viewing plane;
• identifying, by the processing system, a moving object in the video content item when the video content item is displayed on the two-dimensional display system, wherein the moving object has visual properties, and wherein the moving object appears to move toward the viewing plane of the two-dimensional display system;
• generating, by the processing system, a virtual object having visual properties matching the visual properties of the moving object;
• and
• providing, by the processing system, data defining the virtual object to extended reality hardware viewable by the user together with the two-dimensional display system, the extended reality hardware displaying a three-dimensional virtual environment to the user in a physical environment spaced from the viewing plane of the two-dimensional display system, the data defining the virtual object causing the virtual object to appear to move from the viewing plane of the two-dimensional display system the two toward the user in the three-dimensional virtual environment.