Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Leland Stanford Junior University

Facebook Technologies, LLC

Cinnafilm, Inc.

Joseph Davis Greer

Chengyuan Yan

Sheng Shen

Hrvoje Benko

Tristan Thomas Trutna

Raymond King

Yanjun Ma

Wolf Kienzle

Allison Mariko Okamura

Elliot Wright Hawkes

Willy Huang

Szeyin Lee

Laura H Blumenschein

Dillon Sharlet

Anurag Sharma

The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for providing input capabilities at various fidelity levels. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application, a request identifying an input capability for making an input operation available within the application. The method further includes, in response to receiving the request: identifying techniques that the artificial-reality system can use to make the requested input capability available to the application using data from one or more devices; selecting a first technique for making the requested input capability available to the application; and using the first technique to provide to the application data to allow for performance of the requested input capability.

Hardware-agnostic input framework for providing input capabilities at various fidelity levels, and systems and methods of use thereof

Methods of interpreting in-air hand gestures based on orientations of a wrist-wearable device are provided. The method includes receiving, from sensors of a wrist-wearable device, data associated with performance of an in-air hand gesture during a first period of time. The method includes, when determining the data indicates that the wrist-wearable device had a first orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed during the first period of time, causing performance of a first operation. The method includes receiving, from sensors of the wrist-wearable device, new data associated with performance of the in-air hand gesture during a second period of time, the second period of time being after the first period of time. The method includes, when determining that the new data indicates that the wrist-wearable device had a second orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed during the second period of time, causing performance of a second operation.

Systems for interpreting thumb movements of in-air hand gestures for controlling user interfaces based on spatial orientations of a user's hand, and method of use thereof

An apparatus for determining the position of artificial reality wearables may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The apparatus may also include a sensor incorporated into the wearable. The sensor may detect physical interactions between the wearable and at least one specific body part of the user. The apparatus may further include a processing device communicatively coupled to the sensor. The processing device may determine, based at least in part on one or more physical interactions between the wearable and the specific body part of the user, a change in a position of the wearable relative to the specific body part of the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Apparatus, system, and method for determining the position of wearables donned by users of artificial reality systems

A robot for navigating an environment through growth is provided. The growing robot has a thin-walled, hollow, pressurized, compliant body that elongates the body by everting from its tip new wall material that is stored inside the body. The robot controls the shape of the body by actively controlling the relative lengths of the wall material along opposing sides of the body allowing steering.

Robotic mobility and construction by growth

A video processing method comprising receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames, removing via one or more non-binary artifact functions a plurality of artifact pixels from the video stream, and outputting the video stream with the artifact pixels removed.

Single frame artifact filtration and motion estimation

Growing community of inventors

Portland, OR, United States of America

Joseph Davis Greer