Niantic, Inc.

Chihiro Kanno

Shigeru Miyamoto

Hiroki Asakawa

John V Hanke

Madoka Katayama

Tatsuo Nomura

Motoki Yano

Kousuke Kawahira

Kentaro Morikawa

Shunsuke Uematsu

Yuki Sonoda

A parallel-reality application enables users to tag virtual elements in their proximity for later interaction. A geographic location of a user is received and used to identify a virtual location, in a virtual world, that maps to the geographic location of the user. A region of the virtual world is identified based on the identified virtual location and one or more virtual elements within the region of the virtual world are selected. An identifier of the one or more virtual elements is stored in conjunction with an identifier of the user and a list of tagged virtual elements is provided for display to the user. At a later time, the user interacts with a selected one of the tagged virtual elements.

Tagging virtual elements in proximity to user device

A client device can display various augmented reality and virtual reality images to a user. For example, the client device captures images of an external environment and identifies objects in the environment. If an object satisfies a virtual environment criterion, the client device displays a window to a virtual environment at the location of the object in the environment. In another example, the client device includes a light assembly that can generate light. If the user turns the light assembly on, virtual objects displayed in the environment will gather to a region highlighted by the light from the light assembly. In another example, the client device estimates depth information of an object in the environment. The client device then displays a virtual object in the environment based on the depth information and may also display the virtual object interacting with an object in the external environment.

Interactable augmented and virtual reality experience

A system provides an augmented reality (AR) experience in a parallel-reality application in which a geography of a virtual world parallels a geography of the real world. The system receives a connection request from a client device and receives a route that the client device traversed in the real world. The route comprises a plurality of locations in the real world. The system determines a plurality of virtual locations to place virtual elements at, where each virtual element corresponds to a location in the real world of the route. The system updates a global state of the AR experience to include the plurality of virtual elements at the plurality of virtual locations. The system provides, to a second client device, AR data including some of the virtual locations for display of some of the virtual elements at the corresponding locations in the real world.

Multi-user route tracking in an augmented reality environment

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Kawasaki, Japan

Chihiro Kanno