Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Derrick Readinger

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Gioacchino Noris

Alessia Marra

Jennifer Lynn Spurlock

Sarthak Ray

William Arthur Hugh Steptoe

Jeffrey Witthuhn

Fangwei Lee

Sheng Shen

Jonathan Mallinson

Larissa Heike Laich

Javier Alejandro Sierra Santos

Marcus Tanner

Federico Ruiz

Connor Treacy

Aleksejs Anpilogovs

Manuel Ricardo Freire Santos

Panya Inversin

Jeffrey Wai-King Lock

Jonathan Richard Mayoh

Lorenz Henric Jentz

Michael James LeBeau

Khaled Boulos

Björn Wanbo

Robert Carey Leonard

Elizabeth Tu

Michael James Lebeau

Yan Gouts

Marcus Peterson

A controller includes a housing, and a handle extends from a portion of the housing. The housing defines an internal cavity. The housing includes a thumb plate, wherein the thumb plate comprises a touchpad, one or more actuators, and/or a joystick. The one or more actuators comprise buttons. The controller includes a logic board including a processor oriented in the internal cavity. The controller comprises a switch assembly oriented in the internal cavity and configured to engage the logic board. The handle comprises at least one trigger oriented for movement into the internal cavity. The trigger can include a magnet and magnetic sensor.

Two stage triggering in a handheld device

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

The disclosed system may include a substructure configured to support various components, an actuator configured to provide substantially linear motion along a specified axis in response to an electrical input, an input component hingedly coupled to the substructure, where the input component is configured to receive input from a user, and a mechanical linkage coupled to the input component and to at least a portion of the actuator. The mechanical linkage may be configured to translate the substantially linear motion provided by the actuator to a rotary force applied to the input component via the mechanical linkage. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Variable-resistance actuator

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