OCCLUDING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT OR THERMAL IMAGERY FOR SIMULTANEOUS DISPLAY

A wearable computing device provides augmented reality images of an environment in which the wearable computing device is worn. The wearable computing device is configured to detect one or more objects in the environment and acquire, by one or more cameras of the wearable computing device, one or more thermal images of at least one object of the detected one or more objects. The wearable computing device also determines at least one depth parameter value for at least one thermal image of the one or more thermal images and obtains augmented reality content to be displayed with the at least one thermal image. The wearable computing device further obtains instructions of whether one or more portions of the augmented reality content are to be occluded, and uses the at least one thermal image as an occlusion mask to occlude the one or more portions of the augmented reality content.