Apple Inc.

Dan Feng

Mark E Drummond

Bo Morgan

Payal Jotwani

Mu Qiao

Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu

Behrooz Mahasseni

Daniel Laszlo Kovacs

Aashi Manglik

Edward S Ahn

Shaun D Budhram

Michael J Gutensohn

Michelle Chua

Bradley Warren Peebler

Noah Jonathan Gamboa

James Moll

Noah Gamboa

A device obtains a request to display a graphical environment. The graphical environment is associated with a set of saliency values corresponding to respective portions of the graphical environment. A POV for displaying the graphical environment is selected based on the set of saliency values. The graphical environment is displayed from the selected POV on the display.

Displaying an environment from a selected point-of-view

In one implementation, a method of composing a scene content is performed at a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes generating a definition of a scene based on textual or speech input and a model of a physical environment, wherein the definition includes a constraint that defines a spatial relationship between a virtual asset and an anchor asset that corresponds to one or more physical objects in the physical environment. The method includes generating, based on the definition of the scene and the model of the physical environment, a first instance of the scene that satisfies the constraint with the virtual asset in the spatial relationship with a first one of the one or more physical objects in the physical environment. The method includes presenting, on the display, the first instance of the scene.

Methods and systems for composing and executing a scene

In some implementations, a device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an object that includes a plurality of portions including a first portion and a second portion. In some implementations, the method includes determining a first saliency value for the first portion of the object and a second saliency value for the second portion of the object. In some implementations, the method includes triggering presentation of the first portion of the object in accordance with a first display characteristic that is based on the first saliency value and the second portion of the object in accordance with a second display characteristic that is based on the second saliency value.

Triggering presentation of an object based on saliency

According to various implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a virtual agent that is associated with a first viewing frustum. The first viewing frustum includes a user avatar associated with a user, and the user avatar includes a visual representation of one or more eyes. The method includes, while displaying the virtual agent associated with the first viewing frustum, obtaining eye tracking data that is indicative of eye behavior associated with an eye of the user, updating the visual representation of one or more eyes based on the eye behavior, and directing the virtual agent to perform an action based on the updating and scene information associated with the electronic device.

Directing a virtual agent based on eye behavior of a user

In one implementation, a method of displaying content is performed at a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes scanning a first physical environment to detect a first physical object in the first physical environment and a second physical object in the first physical environment, wherein the first physical object meets at least one first object criterion and the second physical object meets at least one second object criterion. The method includes displaying, in association with the first physical environment, a virtual object moving along a first path from the first physical object to the second physical object. The method includes scanning a second physical environment to detect a third physical object in the second physical environment and a fourth physical object in the second physical environment, wherein the third physical object meets the at least one first object criterion and the fourth physical object meets the at least one second object criterion. The method includes displaying, in association with the second physical environment, the virtual object moving along a second path from the third physical object to the fourth physical object, wherein the second path is different than the first path.

In some implementations, a device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a first portion of a physical environment is associated with a first saliency value and a second portion of the physical environment is associated with a second saliency value that is different from the first saliency value. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining, via the one or more sensors, environmental data corresponding to the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes generating, based on the environmental data, a model of the physical environment by modeling the first portion with a first set of modeling features that is a function of the first saliency value and modeling the second portion with a second set of modeling features that is a function of the second saliency value.

Modeling a physical environment based on saliency

In some implementations, a method of navigation mesh exploration is performed at a virtual agent operating system. The method includes: determining one or more first sensory perception regions for one or more senses of a virtual agent based on a first perceptual vector associated with the virtual agent; generating a first portion of a navigation mesh for the XR environment based on the one or more first sensory perception regions, wherein the first portion of the navigation mesh includes candidate subsequent locations different from the first location; and in response to detecting movement of the virtual agent to a respective candidate subsequent location among candidate subsequent locations, generating a second portion of the navigation mesh for the XR environment based on one or more second sensory perception regions for the one or more senses of the virtual agent relative to the respective candidate subsequent location.

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