identify-object

name	identify-object
description	Identify a real-world object the user is looking at or pointing to, using the latest passthrough vision frame and gaze, then label it in place. Use for "what is this?", "what am I holding?", naming an object on a surface, or labeling a single thing in the room. Triggers: what is this, what's that, identify, name this, what am I holding, this thing.
license	MIT
compatibility	Requires JarvisVR agent-backend with perception enabled (camera_passthrough; eye_tracking improves targeting). Protocol v1.1 §8.
metadata	{"agent":"perception-agent","category":"perception","version":"1.0","author":"jarvisvr"}
allowed-tools	identify_object annotate_object draw_bounding_box describe_view

Identify Object

Answer "what is this?" by focusing the most likely target (gaze hit → object in view), naming it, and spawning a vision_annotation callout on the real object.

Inputs you rely on

• The session perception buffer: most recent perception.vision_frame and perception.gaze (hit point / dwell). The backend auto-correlates these with the utterance, so you usually don't request a frame yourself.
• If vision is cold, ask the orchestrator/system to warm it with a single snapshot: perception.request{stream:"vision", action:"once", reason:"user asked what they're looking at"} (protocol §8.4).

Steps

1. Resolve the target. Prefer the perception.gaze.hit_point; else the highest-confidence object in the current frame (identify_object does this focus selection for you).
2. Call identify_object. It returns data.object, data.confidence, and an observation{text, annotations} plus a vision_annotation directive.
3. Narrate via agent.observation (the spoken/captioned narration) and let the annotation render via holo.spawn.
4. Optionally box it with draw_bounding_box when the user wants extent ("how big is it?") or there are look-alikes nearby.
5. Offer a follow-up in agent.speech (set a reminder, look it up, measure).

Output

agent.observation (protocol §8.4):

{ "text": "That's a ceramic coffee mug.", "final": true,
  "annotations": [ { "label": "coffee mug", "position": [0.3,0.8,0.7], "anchor": "world" } ] }

The vision_annotation hologram (annotate_object → holo.spawn, props per holo-tools/registry.json):

{ "widget_type": "vision_annotation",
  "transform": { "anchor": "world", "position": [0.3,0.95,0.7], "billboard": true },
  "props": { "label": "coffee mug", "confidence": 0.78, "detail": "ceramic, ~350 ml",
             "leader_line": true, "target_position": [0.3,0.8,0.7], "color":  
    

When boxing, draw_bounding_box → bounding_box_3d needs label + size:

{ "widget_type": "bounding_box_3d",
  "props": { "label": "laptop", "confidence": 0.91, "size": [0.33,0.02,0.23], "color": "#FFB74D" } }

Edge cases

• Nothing in view / can't identify → say so plainly ("I don't see anything I can identify right now."), spawn no annotation.
• Low confidence (<0.5) → hedge ("looks like…") and keep confidence honest in props so the UI can style uncertainty.
• Multiple candidates → identify the gaze target; if no gaze, pick the most central/confident and mention there are others (or hand to describe-surroundings).
• Privacy → frames are processed in-memory; after a once snapshot, ensure the stream is stopped (perception.request{action:"stop"}).
• Remember it → if the user says "remember this is here", hand to locate-remembered-object.