Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Michael James Lebeau

Björn Wanbo

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Gioacchino Noris

Alessia Marra

Jennifer Lynn Spurlock

Panya Inversin

Jeffrey Witthuhn

William Arthur Hugh Steptoe

Sarthak Ray

Sheng Shen

Fangwei Lee

Derrick Readinger

Mark Rabkin

Jonathan Mallinson

Manuel Ricardo Freire Santos

Federico Ruiz

Larissa Heike Laich

Javier Alejandro Sierra Santos

Aleksejs Anpilogovs

Marcus Tanner

Connor Treacy

Jeffrey Wai-King Lock

Jonathan Richard Mayoh

John Nicholas Jitkoff

Fábio Resende

Vesa Petteri Rantanen

Systems and methods for providing partial passthrough video to a user of a virtual reality device are disclosed herein. Providing the partial passthrough video can include detecting a hand passthrough trigger event and identifying a hand passthrough video feed. Providing partial passthrough video can further include aligning the hand passthrough video feed with a virtual environment presented to a user by the virtual environment and, based on the aligning of the hand passthrough video feed with the virtual environment, overlaying the hand passthrough video feed on the virtual environment.

Partial passthrough in virtual reality

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a VC/XR connection system that can establish and administer an XR space for a video call. The VC/XR connection system allows users to easily transition from a typical video call experience to the XR space, simply by putting on her artificial reality device. The VC/XR connection system can identify calendared video call events, establish corresponding XR spaces, and create a link between the video call and the XR space. Invitees to the video call that don an artificial reality device can be automatically taken into the XR space. The XR space can A) connect to the video call as a call participant, allowing the video call participants to see into the XR space and B) show a feed of the video call in the XR space, allowing users in the XR space to see the video call participants.

Parallel video call and artificial reality spaces

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating and administering artificial reality collaborative working environments and providing interaction modes for them. An XR work system can provide and control such artificial reality collaborative working environments to enable, for example, A) links between real-world surfaces and XR surfaces; B) links between multiple real-world areas to XR areas with dedicated functionality; C) maintaining access, while inside the artificial reality working environment, to real-world work tools such as the user's computer screen and keyboard; D) various hand and controller modes for different interaction and collaboration modalities; E) use-based, multi-desk collaborative room configurations; and F) context-based auto population of users and content items into the artificial reality working environment.

Artificial reality collaborative working environments

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