Systems and methods are provided for implementing an interactive application, which incorporates voice-driven and motion-driven interactions with media content in a display device. An application instance can be initialized for interacting with media content output to a display device, such as an head mounted display (HMD). Then, a determination whether a received user interaction is interpretable into an interactive command defined by an operating system (OS) is performed. If the OS can interpret the user interaction, the interactive command can be executed with actions generated by the OS. Alternatively, an emulation of the interactive command may be executed, when the user interaction cannot be interpreted by the OS. Subsequently, the media content is presented within a user interface based on the interactive command. For example, user interaction can be the head movement of a user that is interpreted into a command that controls presentation of web content in the HMD.