Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Apple Inc.

Jia Wang

Joshua Benjamin Eiten

Aaron Mackay Burns

Alexis Henri Palangie

Reza Abbasian

Benjamin R Blachnitzky

David M Schattel

Adam G Poulos

Charilaos Papadopoulos

Ryan S Carlin

Dong Back Kim

Ricardo Acosta Moreno

Ezgi Demirayak

Stefan Landvogt

Julia Schwarz

Brian Murphy

Michal Hlavac

Benjamin Hunter Boesel

Daniel Benjamin Witriol

David M Hill

Evgenii Krivoruchko

Emiko Valiane Charbonneau

David J Calabrese

Yasaman Sheri

Travis William Steiner

Shannon Richard Monroe

An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. The representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. The three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. A multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. There may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. The pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. Some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. The presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. A participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.

Interactive element in a replay

Presentations in multi-user communication sessions

Techniques for controlling and/or moving a cursor, such as by using air gestures, are described.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for using a cursor to interact with three-dimensional environments

The construction of virtual reality environments can be made more efficient with enhancements directed to the sizing of objects to be utilized in the construction of virtual reality environments, enhancements directed to the simultaneous display of multiple thumbnails, or other like indicators, of virtual reality environments being constructed, enhancements directed to controlling the positioning of a view of a virtual reality environment, enhancements directed to conceptualizing the virtual reality environment as perceived through different types of three-dimensional presentational hardware, and enhancements directed to the exchange of objects between multiple virtual reality environments being constructed.

Efficiency enhancements to construction of virtual reality environments

Facilitating a virtual object contacting (or snapping to) a target surface (such as a virtual surface in a virtual reality environment, or a real surface in an augmented reality environment). A computing system detects a user-selection of a virtual object, and that the virtual object has moved proximate to a target surface. While the virtual object remains proximate to the target surface, if the computing system detects a user-initiated snapping instruction, the computing system snaps the virtual object to the target surface. Potentially, after the virtual object is snapped to the target surface, the user may continue to manipulate (e.g., resize, reproportion, copy, slide, rotate, and so forth) that virtual object while maintaining the virtual object in contact with the target surface.

Snapping virtual object to target surface

Techniques for interacting with a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment including receiving a first user input for selecting a first virtual object; identifying, in response to the first user input, the first virtual object as a currently selected virtual object; receiving a second user input for activating an object reorientation mode; activating, in response to the second user input, an object reorientation mode; receiving a third user input indicating changes in pose of a hand; receiving, while the first virtual object has remained a currently selected virtual object the object reorientation mode has remained active, a fourth user input; identifying a first orientation of a reference virtual object; and changing, in response to receiving the fourth user input, an object space orientation of the first virtual object to having the first orientation from a different second orientation.

On-the-fly adjustment of orientation of virtual objects

Techniques for context-aware recommendations of relevant presentation content are disclosed. In some configurations, the techniques involve the processing of contextual data from one or more resources to dynamically direct a presentation. A computing device can receive contextual data from one or more resources. The contextual data can be processed to select one or more sections of content data, e.g., a slide of a slide deck or a page of document. The computing device can then cause a display of the one or more sections on one or more devices. In some configurations, a hardware display surface can be configured to provide a real-world view of an object, e.g., a model or other item that may be related to the presentation, through the hardware display surface while also providing a display of the one or more sections of the presenter's material.

Context-aware recommendations of relevant presentation content displayed in mixed environments

Methods and devices for displaying a virtual affordance with a virtual target are disclosed. In one example, the virtual target is displayed to a user via a display device. The user's point of gaze is determined to be at a gaze location within a target zone including the virtual target. The user's hand is determined to be at a hand location within a designated tracking volume. Based on at least determining that the user's gaze is at the gaze location and the user's hand is at the hand location, the virtual affordance is displayed at a landing location corresponding to the virtual target, where the landing location is independent of both the gaze location and the user's hand location. Movement of the user's hand is tracked and the virtual affordance is modified in response to the movement.

Virtual affordance display at virtual target

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Jia Wang