Facebook Technologies, LLC

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Matthew Roberts

Fangwei Lee

Campbell Orme

Matthew Adam Hanson

Daphne Liang

Bryant Jun-Yao Tang

Hermes Germi Pique Corchs

Olivier Marie Bouan Du Chef Du Bos

Jim Sing Liu

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

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving a first input from a first artificial reality device detecting a first environment of a first user and determining a first environmental feature of the first environment based on the first input. The method may include receiving a second input from a second artificial reality device detecting a second environment of a second user and determining a second environmental feature of the second environment based on the second input. The method may include comparing the first environmental feature with the second environmental feature and including, based on the comparison, the first and second users in a group for online interactions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

User groups based on artificial reality

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Matthew Roberts