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Alan M Dunn

Jiahe Helen Wang

David Alexander Molnar

Tadayoshi Kohno

Alexander Nikolavich Moshchuk

Franziska Roesner

Eyal Ofek

Benjamin Livshits

Margus Veanes

Timothy Scott Saponas

Loris D'Antoni

Suman Jana

Alexander N Moshchuk

A shared renderer maintains shared state information to which two or more augmented reality application contribute. The shared renderer then provides a single output presentation based on the shared state information. Among other aspects, the shared renderer includes a permission mechanism by which applications can share information regarding object properties. The shared renderer may also include: a physics engine for simulating movement of at least one object that is represented by the shared state information; an annotation engine for managing a presentation of annotations produced by plural applications; and/or an occlusion engine for managing the behavior of the output presentation when two or more objects, produced by two or more applications, overlap within the output presentation.

Managing shared state information produced by applications

Functionality is described herein by which plural environment-sensing applications capture information from an environment in a fine-grained and least-privileged manner. By doing so, the functionality reduces the risk that private information that appears within the environment will be released to unauthorized parties. Among other aspects, the functionality provides an error correction mechanism for reducing the incidence of false positives in the detection of objects, an offloading technique for delegating computationally intensive recognition tasks to a remote computing framework, and a visualization module by which a user may inspect the access rights to be granted (or already granted) to each application.

Managing access by applications to perceptual information

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