1. A method of operating a virtual image generation system, the method comprising: allowing an end user to visualize an object of interest in a three-dimensional scene; spatially associating a text region within a field of view of the user, wherein the text region is spatially associated with the object of interest; generating a gesture reference associated with the object of interest; generating a textual message that identifies at least one characteristic of the object of interest; streaming the textual message within the text region; sensing gestural commands from the end user by detecting an angular position of an anatomical part of the end user relative to a plurality of different regions of the gesture reference; and controlling the streaming of the textual message in response to the sensed gestural commands, wherein the gesture reference is an annular ring surrounding the object of interest, and wherein a first side of the annular ring forms one of the different regions, and a second side of the annular ring opposite of the first side of the annular ring forms another one of the different regions.
1. A method of operating a virtual image generation system, the method comprising: allowing an end user to visualize an object of interest in a three-dimensional scene; spatially associating a text region within a field of view of the user, wherein the text region is spatially associated with the object of interest; generating a gesture reference associated with the object of interest; generating a textual message that identifies at least one characteristic of the object of interest; streaming the textual message within the text region; sensing gestural commands from the end user by detecting an angular position of an anatomical part of the end user relative to a plurality of different regions of the gesture reference; and controlling the streaming of the textual message in response to the sensed gestural commands, wherein the gesture reference is an annular ring surrounding the object of interest, and wherein a first side of the annular ring forms one of the different regions, and a second side of the annular ring opposite of the first side of the annular ring forms another one of the different regions. 10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the streaming of the textual message is controlled in response to the sensed gestural commands by displaying at least one word of the textual message when the anatomical part of the end user is pointed at the one region of the gesture reference, and displaying at least another word of the textual message when the anatomical part of the end user is pointed at another different region of the gesture reference.