Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

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Facebook Technologies, LLC

Gregory Alt

Barrett Fox

Michal Hlavac

Hayden Schoen

Arthur Zwiegincew

James Tichenor

Merlyn Deng

Todd K Harris

Alex Marcolina

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Brian James Mount

Dan B Kroymann

Evan Michael Keibler

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Adam G Poulos

Cameron Graeme Brown

Anthony James Ambrus

Nicholas Fajt

Robert Thomas Held

Anatolie Gavriliuc

Christian Michael Sadak

Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen

Michelle Chua

Todd Omotani

Maxime Ouellet

Riccardo Giraldi

Jonathan Lyons

Erik Andrew Saltwell

Richard Wifall

Shih-Sang Carnaven Chiu

Roger Sebastian-Kevin Sylvan

Joseph Van Den Heuvel

Denise Ng

Will Guyman

Cameron Quinn Egbert

Jorge Tosar

Jeff W McGlynn

Jeremy Hance

Alexander Georg Pfaffe

Chris Word

Laura K Sugden

Richard J Wifall

Todd Alan Omotani

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing an artificial reality environment with augments and surfaces. An 'augment' is a virtual container in 3D space that can include presentation data, context, and logic. An artificial reality system can use augments as the fundamental building block for displaying 2D and 3D models in the artificial reality environment. For example, augments can represent people, places, and things in an artificial reality environment and can respond to a context such as a current display mode, time of day, a type of surface the augment is on, a relationship to other augments, etc. Augments can be on a “surface” that has a layout and properties that cause augments on that surface to display in different ways. Augments and other objects (real or virtual) can also interact, where these interactions can be controlled by rules for the objects evaluated based on information from the shell.

Artificial reality augments and surfaces

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing an artificial reality environment with augments and surfaces. An 'augment' is a virtual container in 3D space that can include presentation data, context, and logic. An artificial reality system can use augments as the fundamental building block for displaying 2D and 3D models in the artificial reality environment. For example, augments can represent people, places, and things in an artificial reality environment and can respond to a context such as a current display mode, time of day, a type of surface the augment is on, a relationship to other augments, etc. Augments can be on a 'surface' that has a layout and properties that cause augments on that surface to display in different ways. Augments and other objects (real or virtual) can also interact, where these interactions can be controlled by rules for the objects evaluated based on information from the shell.

Artificial realty augments and surfaces

Examples are disclosed that relate to representing a digital project file. One example provides a computing device comprising a logic device and a storage device holding instructions executable to obtain a digital project file comprising a geometric representation of a real physical space, and a user-created annotation associated with a location in the representation. The instructions are further executable to display a representation of the file in a first rendering format, receive a request to display a representation of the file in a second rendering format in which one or more real surfaces of the real physical space are displayed as a virtual rendering, the one or more real surfaces not being displayed as the virtual rendering the first digital rendering format, and, in response to the request, display the representation of the file in the second format.

Digital project file presentation

Embodiments are disclosed that relate to operating a user interface on an augmented reality computing device comprising a display system. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes displaying a virtual object via the display system as free-floating, detecting a trigger to display the object as attached to a surface, and, in response to the trigger, displaying the virtual object as attached to the surface via the display system. The method may further include detecting a trigger to detach the virtual object from the surface and, in response to the trigger to detach the virtual object from the surface, detaching the virtual object from the surface and displaying the virtual object as free-floating.

Interactions of virtual objects with surfaces

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to identifying and localizing devices in an environment via an augmented reality display device. One example provides, on a portable augmented reality computing device, a method including establishing a coordinate frame for an environment, and discovering, via a location-sensitive input device, a location of a physical manifestation of the device in the environment, assigning a device location for the device in the coordinate frame based upon the location of the physical manifestation, and modifying an output of the portable augmented reality computing device based upon a change in relative position between the portable augmented reality computing device and the physical manifestation in environment.

Localizing devices in augmented reality environment

A system and method are disclosed for capturing views of a mixed reality environment from various perspectives which can be displayed on a monitor. The system includes one or more physical cameras at user-defined positions within the mixed reality environment. The system renders virtual objects in the mixed reality environment from the perspective of the one or more cameras. Real and virtual objects from the mixed reality environment may then be displayed from the perspective of the one or more cameras on one or more external, 2D monitor for viewing by others.

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