Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Björn Wanbo

William Arthur Hugh Steptoe

Jonathan Mallinson

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Gioacchino Noris

Alessia Marra

Jennifer Lynn Spurlock

Jeffrey Witthuhn

Sarthak Ray

Fangwei Lee

Sheng Shen

Derrick Readinger

Manuel Ricardo Freire Santos

Larissa Heike Laich

Javier Alejandro Sierra Santos

Aleksejs Anpilogovs

Marcus Tanner

Federico Ruiz

Connor Treacy

Panya Inversin

Jeffrey Wai-King Lock

Jonathan Richard Mayoh

Michael James LeBeau

Michael James Lebeau

Mark Rabkin

Fábio Resende

Vesa Petteri Rantanen

Vasanth Kumar Rajendran

Steven James Wilson

Vasyl Baran

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a VC/XR connection system that can establish and administer an XR space for a video call. The VC/XR connection system allows users to easily transition from a typical video call experience to the XR space, simply by putting on her artificial reality device. The VC/XR connection system can identify calendared video call events, establish corresponding XR spaces, and create a link between the video call and the XR space. Invitees to the video call that don an artificial reality device can be automatically taken into the XR space. The XR space can A) connect to the video call as a call participant, allowing the video call participants to see into the XR space and B) show a feed of the video call in the XR space, allowing users in the XR space to see the video call participants.

Parallel video call and artificial reality spaces

A room manager can generate mappings for a real-world room that support a shared XR environment. For example, the real-world room can include real-world objects and surfaces, such as a table(s), chair(s), wall(s), door(s), window(s), etc. The room manager can generate XR object definitions based on information received about the real-world room, object(s), and surface(s). For example, the room manager can implement a flow that guides a user equipped with an XR system to provide information for the XR object definitions, such as real-world surfaces that map to the XR object(s), borders (e.g., measured using a component of the XR system), such as borders on real-world surfaces, semantic information (e.g., number of seat assignments at an XR table, size of XR objects, etc.), and other suitable information. Implementations generate previews of the shared XR environment, such as a local preview and a remote preview.

Mapping a real-world room for a shared artificial reality environment

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating and administering artificial reality collaborative working environments and providing interaction modes for them. An XR work system can provide and control such artificial reality collaborative working environments to enable, for example, A) links between real-world surfaces and XR surfaces; B) links between multiple real-world areas to XR areas with dedicated functionality; C) maintaining access, while inside the artificial reality working environment, to real-world work tools such as the user's computer screen and keyboard; D) various hand and controller modes for different interaction and collaboration modalities; E) use-based, multi-desk collaborative room configurations; and F) context-based auto population of users and content items into the artificial reality working environment.

Artificial reality collaborative working environments

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