Google Inc.

Andre Le

Juan David Hincapie

Dominik Philemon Kaeser

Robert Carl Jagnow

Joanna Kim

Alan Sheridan

Rachel Elizabeth Inman

Adam Glazier

Marek Gorecki

Matthew Seegmiller

Ran Tao

Tarik Abdel-Gawad

Kasey Klimes

Chun-Po Wang

Alex Jacobo-Blonder

Han-Wei Chu

Mirko Ranieri

Aleksandr Palatnik

Catherine Most

Wenli Zhao

Bo Zhang

Nadav Ashkenazi

Matt Seegmiller

Tony Shih

Mohamed Suhail Mohamed Yousuf Sait

Michael Podwal

The present disclosure provides systems and methods that makes use of one or more image sensors of a device to provide users with information relating to nearby points of interest. The image sensors may be used to detect features and/or objects in the field of view of the image sensors. Pose data, including a location and orientation of the device is then determined based on the one or more detected features and/or objects. A plurality of points of interest that are within a geographical area that is dependent on the pose data are then determined. The determination may, for instance, be made by querying a mapping database for points of interest that are known to be located within a particular distance of the location of the user. The device then provides information to the user indicating one or more of the plurality of points of interest.

Use of image sensors to query real world for geo-reference information

To present augmented reality features without localizing a user, a client device receives a request for presenting augmented reality features in a camera view of a computing device of the user. Prior to localizing the user, the client device obtains sensor data indicative of a pose of the user, and determines the pose of the user based on the sensor data with a confidence level that exceeds a confidence threshold which indicates a low accuracy state. Then the client device presents one or more augmented reality features in the camera view in accordance with the determined pose of the user while in the low accuracy state.

Geographic augmented reality design for low accuracy scenarios

The present disclosure is directed to providing a notification in association with an augmented reality (AR) view. In particular, one or more computing devices can generate, for display by at least one of the computing device(s), an interface depicting an AR view of at least a portion of a physical real-world environment. In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, based at least in part on detected movement of the at least one of the computing device(s), the computing device(s) can transition amongst multiple different stages of one or more elements included in the interface to notify a viewer of the interface to mind their situational awareness of the physical real-world environment.

Methods and systems for providing a notification in association with an augmented-reality view

In one general aspect, a method can include triggering display of a virtual environment in a head mounted display (HMD) device operating in a physical environment, triggering display of a first virtual object representing a second virtual object, the first virtual object having a size smaller than a size of the second virtual object, receiving an indication of an interaction of a user with the first virtual object, the user having a first size larger than the size of the first virtual object, and triggering an interaction with the second virtual object in response to an interaction with the first virtual object, the user having a second size larger than the first size when interacting with the second virtual object.

Location globe in virtual reality

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Andre Le