Apple Inc.

Alexis Henri Palangie

Aaron Mackay Burns

Nathan Gitter

Pol Pla I Conesa

David M Schattel

Avi Bar-Zeev

Benjamin Hylak

Jordan A Cazamias

Rahul Nair

Luis R Deliz Centeno

Christopher D Mckenzie

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Devin William Chalmers

Timothy Robert Oriol

Dorian D Dargan

Benjamin R Blachnitzky

Shih-Sang Chiu

Ryan S Burgoyne

Jonathan R Dascola

Peter D Anton

Israel Pastrana Vicente

Bruno M Sommer

Connor A Smith

Reza Abbasian

Benjamin Hunter Boesel

Jonathan Ravasz

Jia Wang

Adam G Poulos

Shih Sang Chiu

Charilaos Papadopoulos

Ryan S Carlin

Ezgi Demirayak

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Matthew J Sundstrom

Tong Chen

William D Lindmeier

Arun Rakesh Yoganandan

Peter L Hajas

James J Owen

Zoey C Taylor

Wesley M Holder

Jonathan Perron

Avi Bar-zeev

Tony Kobayashi

Carmine Elvezio

Shi-Shang Chiu

Shi-Sang Chiu

William A Iii Sorrentino

In one implementation, a method of processing input for multiple devices is performed by a first electronic device one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes determining a gaze direction. The method includes selecting a target electronic device based on determining that the gaze direction is directed to the target electronic device. The method includes receiving, via an input device, one or more inputs. The method includes processing the one or more inputs based on the target electronic device.

Method and device for processing user input for multiple devices

In one implementation, a method of resolving focal conflict in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image of a scene including a real object in a particular direction at a first distance from the device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a CGR environment including a virtual object in the particular direction at a second distance from the device. In accordance with a determination that the second distance is less than the first distance, the CGR environment includes the virtual object overlaid on the scene. In accordance with a determination that the second distance is greater than the first distance, the CGR environment includes the virtual object with an obfuscation area that obfuscates at least a portion of the real object within the obfuscation area.

Method and device for resolving focal conflict

An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. The representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. The three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. A multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. There may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. The pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. Some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. The presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. A participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.

Interactive element in a replay

Methods for displaying selectable options in a computer-generated environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, one or more selectable options are displayed in a three-dimensional computer-generated environment in accordance with the determination that the one or more criteria have been satisfied, including a criteria that a hand of the user is oriented in a predetermined manner with respect to an electronic device. In some embodiments, a user is able to perform one-handed actuation of a selectable option with a plurality of user inputs and/or gestures that satisfy one or more activation criteria.

Method of displaying selectable options

In an exemplary process for interacting with user interface objects using an eye gaze, a placement point for a selected object is designated at a first position based on a gaze position. In response to a user input, the placement point is moved to a second position that is not based on the gaze position, and the object is placed at the second position.

Gaze-based user interactions

Devices, methods, and graphical interfaces for content applications displayed in an XR environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, a content application is displayed in a three-dimensional computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, different viewing modes and user interfaces are available for a content application in a three-dimensional computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, different interactions are available with content items displayed in the XR environment.

Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for content applications

Presentations in multi-user communication sessions

Methods for displaying and organizing user interfaces in a computer-generated environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, user interfaces can be grouped together into a container. In some embodiments, user interfaces can be added to a container, removed from a container, or moved from one location in the container to another location. In some embodiments, a visual indication is displayed before a user interface is added to a container. In some embodiments, a user interface can replace an existing user interface in a container. In some embodiments, when moving a user interface in a computer-generated environment, the transparency of a user interface that is obscured can be modified.

Method of grouping user interfaces in an environment

In some embodiments, an electronic device automatically updates the orientation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment based on a viewpoint of a user in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device automatically updates the orientation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment based on viewpoints of a plurality of users in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the electronic device modifies an appearance of a real object that is between a virtual object and the viewpoint of a user in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the electronic device automatically selects a location for a user in a three-dimensional environment that includes one or more virtual objects and/or other users.

Methods for manipulating objects in an environment

In some embodiments, an electronic device updates the spatial arrangement of one or more virtual objects in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device updates the positions of multiple virtual objects together. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays objects in a three-dimensional environment based on an estimated location of a floor in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device moves (e.g., repositions) objects in a three-dimensional environment.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for presenting virtual objects in virtual environments

Methods for displaying user interfaces in a computer-generated environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, user interfaces can have different immersion levels. In some embodiments, a user interface can have a respective immersion level based on its location in the three-dimensional environment or distance from the user. In some embodiments, a user interface can have a respective immersion level based on the state of the user interface. In some embodiments, a user interface can switch from one immersion level to another in response to the user's interaction with the user interface.

Method of displaying user interfaces in an environment and corresponding electronic device and computer readable storage medium

In some embodiments, a computer system performs virtual object manipulation operations using respective portions of the user's body and/or input device(s). In some embodiments, a computer system manipulates a virtual object based on input from a hand of a user and/or a handheld device. In some embodiments, a computer system manipulates a virtual object directly or indirectly.

Methods for manipulating a virtual object

In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for controlling representations of virtual objects based on respective user contexts that each correspond to different respective locations in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is described.

Controlling representations of virtual objects in a computer-generated reality environment

Exemplary processes are described, including processes to move and/or resize user interface elements in a computer-generated reality environment.

Controlling displays

In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with virtual objects in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with selectable user interface elements. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with slider user interface elements. In some embodiments, an electronic device moves virtual objects in a three-dimensional environment and facilitates accessing actions associated with virtual objects.

Methods for interacting with virtual controls and/or an affordance for moving virtual objects in virtual environments

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Alexis Henri Palangie