Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Fangwei Lee

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Gioacchino Noris

Alessia Marra

Jennifer Lynn Spurlock

William Arthur Hugh Steptoe

Sarthak Ray

Jeffrey Witthuhn

Sheng Shen

Björn Wanbo

Derrick Readinger

Jonathan Mallinson

Manuel Ricardo Freire Santos

Larissa Heike Laich

Javier Alejandro Sierra Santos

Marcus Tanner

Aleksejs Anpilogovs

Connor Treacy

Federico Ruiz

Panya Inversin

Jonathan Richard Mayoh

Jeffrey Wai-King Lock

Michael James LeBeau

Campbell Orme

Matthew Roberts

Matthew Adam Hanson

Daphne Liang

Bryant Jun-Yao Tang

Michael James Lebeau

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating interactive avatars that can be pinned as world-locked artificial reality content. Once pinned, an avatar can interact with the environment according to contextual queues and rules, without active control by the avatar owner. An interactive avatar system can configure the avatar with action rules, visual elements, and settings based on user selections. Once an avatar is configured and pinned to a location by an avatar owner, when other XR devices are at that location, a central system can provide the avatar (with its configurations) to the other XR device. This allows a user of that other XR device to discover and interact with the avatar according to the configurations established by the avatar owner.

Interactive avatars in artificial reality

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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