In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the one or more stress-inducing elements include one or more people in the real world field of view viewable through the AR device. Further, in one embodiment, program code executing on the one or more processors determines that the user and the one or more people are in motion relative to each other, and the identifying includes predicting by the program code that the user and the one or more people will not intersect. In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the program code executing on the one or more processors receives location data for the user to predict whether the user is approaching or in a crowded area, and the processing of the image data is further based on the location data predicting that the user is approaching or in the crowded area.

In certain embodiments of the present invention, the real world field of view viewable by the user through the AR device includes multiple stress-inducing elements for the user, and the one or more stress-inducing elements identified to be hidden are only a portion of the multiple stress-inducing elements viewable by the user through the AR device, with the portion being less than all of the multiple stress-inducing elements.

In one or more embodiments of the present invention, providing the augmented real world field of view for display to the user includes, based on identifying the one or more stress-inducing elements for the user to be hidden, generating by the program code executing on the one or more processors, a spatial mapping of the image data around the one or more stress-inducing elements, and using the spatial mapping to provide the augmented real world field of view by selectively hiding the one or more stress-inducing elements.