Apple Inc.

Mark A Ebbole

Devin William Chalmers

Andrew P Richardson

Michael E Buerli

Tyler R Calderone

Samuel Lee Iglesias

Peter L Hajas

Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini

Adam Michael O'Hern

Leah M Gum

Charles Magahern

Justin T Voss

Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi

Anuj Bhatnagar

Colin D Munro

Abhinay Ashutosh

Chia-Ling Li

Daniel M Golden

John M Nefulda

Joaquim Goncalo Lobo Ferreira Da Silva

Andrew A Haas

Devin W Chalmers

Samuel L Iglesias

Andrew T Finke

Aspects of the subject technology relate to gaze-based control of an electronic device. The gaze-based control can include enabling an option to provide user authorization when it is determined that the user has viewed and/or read text associated with a request for the user authorization. The gaze-based control can also include modifying a user interface or a user interface element based on user views and/or reads. The gaze-based control can be based on determining whether a user has viewed and/or read an electronic document and/or a physical document.

Gaze-based control

While a view of an environment is visible via a display generation component of a computer system, the computer system detects a gaze input directed to a first location, corresponding to a first user interface element, in the environment. In response to detecting the gaze input: if a user's hand is in a predefined configuration during the gaze input, the computer system: provides, to the first user interface element, information about the gaze input; and then, in response to detecting the gaze input moving to a different, second location in the environment while the user's hand is maintained in the predefined configuration, provides, to a second user interface element that corresponds to the second location, information about the gaze input. If the user's hand is not in the predefined configuration during the gaze input, the computer system forgoes providing, to the first user interface element, information about the gaze input.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for processing inputs to a three-dimensional environment

A head-mounted device is provided that includes displays configured to display an image and to simultaneously display a magnifying window that presents a magnified portion of the image. The magnifying window lies in a magnification plane that is fixed relative to a user's head. One or more processors in the head-mounted device can be used to perform a first ray cast operation to identify an input point where a detected user input intersects the magnifying window, to obtain a remapped point from the input point, to compute a directional vector based on the remapped point and a reference point associated with the user's head, to obtain a shifted point by shifting the remapped point from the magnification plane to another plane parallel to the magnification plane, and to perform a second ray cast operation using the shifted point and the directional vector.

Head-mounted electronic device with magnification tool

Implementations of the subject technology provide virtual anchoring for extended reality (XR) display devices. A device may generate an XR environment that includes computer-generated (CG) content for display relative to various physical objects in a physical environment. In order to position the CG content, an XR application may request a physical anchor object to which the CG content can be anchored. In circumstances in which the physical anchor object is not available in the physical environment, a virtual anchor and/or a virtual anchor object corresponding to the physical anchor object can be provided to which the CG content can be anchored.

Virtual anchoring systems and methods for extended reality

Implementations of the subject technology provide continuous transfer of content editing and/or control between various devices in an extended reality system. The extended reality system includes at least one device that is capable of determining the locations of other devices in the system. This device can manage continuous transfer of control between other devices in the system responsive to three-dimensional location-based user inputs, and/or can manage continuous transfer of control between one or more of the other devices and the device itself.

Multi-device continuity for use with extended reality systems

Out-of-process hit-testing can provide increased privacy and efficiency in computer user input systems. In an aspect, an application specifies a control style for a UI window to be managed separately from the application, such as by a system process running outside of the application process. When a user input is received at a location corresponding to a part of the application UI that is separate from the UI window for which the control style has been specified, the user input may be redirected to the UI window for which the control style has been specified.

Out-of-process hit-testing for electronic devices

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for indicating a distance to a selectable portion of a virtual surface. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a graphical environment that includes a virtual surface, wherein at least a portion of the virtual surface is selectable. In some implementations, the method includes determining a distance between a collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface. In some implementations, the method includes displaying a depth indicator in association with the collider object. In some implementations, a visual property of the depth indicator is selected based on the distance between the collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface.

User interface for interacting with an affordance in an environment

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Mark A Ebbole