Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rec Room Inc.

Nicholas Fajt

Cameron Graeme Brown

Daniel Joseph McCulloch

Dan B Kroymann

Arthur Charles Tomlin

Omer Bilal Orhan

Jason Bradley Scott

Joshua Wehrly

Adam G Poulos

Michael Scavezze

John Bevis

Johnathan Bevis

Ryan Lucas Hastings

Tony Ambrus

Jamie Bryant Kirschenbaum

Jonathan Plumb

Matthew Kaplan

Jeremy Lee

Stephen G Latta

Relja Markovic

Ben J Sugden

Alex A Kipman

Robert L Crocco, Jr

Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda

Peter Tobias Kinnebrew

Laura K Massey

Brian E Keane

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

Daniel Deptford

Evan Michael Keibler

Thomas Salter

Mike Thomas

Ron Amador-Leon

Zachary Quarles

Michael Klucher

Anthony James Ambrus

Wei Zhang

Kim Pascal Pimmel

Lewey Geselowitz

Rotem Bennet

Roger Sebastian-Kevin Sylvan

Christopher Douglas Edmonds

Brian James Mount

Jeffrey Alan Kohler

Michael Edward Samples

Michael Robert Thomas

Lev Cherkashin

Constantin Dulu

Gregory Alt

Michael Grabner

James Dack

Eric Scott Rehmeyer

Marcus Philip Ghaly

Jonathan Lyons

Erik Andrew Saltwell

Varun Ramesh Mani

Muhammad Jabir Kapasi

Edward Daniel Parker

Cameron Quinn Egbert

Brent Charles Allen

Will Guyman

Cecilia Bong

Miguel Angel Susffalich

Jorge Tosar

Jonathan Bevis

Jeff W McGlynn

Jeremy Hance

Alexander Georg Pfaffe

Chris Word

Johnathan Robert Bevis

In some embodiments, techniques for managing interaction permissions for an object in a shared virtual environment are provided. The techniques may determine whether to present an object in a limited-interaction mode or in an interactive mode based on a permission condition. The permission condition may include a proximity condition that specifies a proximity threshold between two objects within the shared virtual environment that should be met in order to provide the object in the interactive mode. The proximity threshold may specify a distance between an avatar of an owning user of the object and the object; a distance between an avatar of an owning user of the object and an avatar of a user being presented the object, or other distances.

Systems and method for managing permission for interacting with virtual objects based on virtual proximity

An endpoint system including one or more computing devices presents an object in a virtual environment (e.g., a shared virtual environment); receives gaze input corresponding to a gaze of a user of the endpoint system; calculates a gaze vector based on the gaze input; receives motion input corresponding to an action of the user; determines a path adjustment (e.g., by changing motion parameters such as trajectory and velocity) for the object based at least in part on the gaze vector and the motion input; and simulates motion of the object within the virtual environment based at least in part on the path adjustment. The object may be presented as being thrown by an avatar, with a flight path based on the path adjustment. The gaze vector may be based on head orientation information, eye tracking information, or some combination of these or other gaze information.

Systems and methods for assisting virtual gestures based on viewing frustum

An endpoint system including one or more computing devices receives user input associated with an avatar in a shared virtual environment; calculates, based on the user input, motion for a portion of the first avatar, such as a hand; determines, based on the user input, a first gesture state for first avatar; transmits first location change notifications and a representation of the first gesture state for the first avatar; receives second location change notifications and a representation of a second gesture state for a second avatar; detects a collision between the first avatar and the second avatar based on the first location change notifications and the second location change notifications; and identifies a collaborative gesture based on the detected collision, the first gesture state, and the second gesture state.

Systems and methods for detecting collaborative virtual gestures

In some embodiments, a detecting endpoint system accessing a shared virtual environment detects a collision between a target avatar and an object within the shared virtual environment. The detecting endpoint system transmits a location change notification for a head of the target avatar. An observer endpoint system moves the head of the target avatar based on the location change notification. A target endpoint system associated with the target avatar does not move its viewpoint based on the location change notification. In some embodiments, this decoupling of viewpoint from the avatar allows for a more immersive experience for all users.

Systems and methods providing temporary decoupling of user avatar synchronicity for presence enhancing experiences

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, endpoint systems participating in a shared virtual environment simulate objects locally that a user of the endpoint system is likely to interact with. In some embodiments, object authority is thus managed by the endpoint systems, and is not managed by a central server. In some embodiments, a subsequent endpoint system likely to interact with an object may be predicted, and object authority may be transferred to the subsequent endpoint system before the interaction in order to provide an immersive experience for a user of the subsequent endpoint system. In some embodiments, efficient techniques for transmitting notifications between endpoint systems are provided.

Systems and methods for transferring object authority in a shared virtual environment

A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual content. When a user is settled in a given geographic area, a full version of the content may be displayed at user-defined or processor-defined location. When the user is moving, for example leaving the geographic area, a mobile version of the content may be displayed at a body-locked position peripheral to the user's view.

User-based context sensitive hologram reaction

In embodiments of a camera-based input device, the input device includes an inertial measurement unit that collects motion data associated with velocity and acceleration of the input device in an environment, such as in three-dimensional (3D) space. The input device also includes at least two visual light cameras that capture images of the environment. A positioning application is implemented to receive the motion data from the inertial measurement unit, and receive the images of the environment from the at least two visual light cameras. The positioning application can then determine positions of the input device based on the motion data and the images correlated with a map of the environment, and track a motion of the input device in the environment based on the determined positions of the input device.

Position-determining input device

Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to tuning gesture recognition characteristics for a device configured to receive gesture-based user inputs. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a head-mounted display device including a plurality of sensors, a display configured to present a user interface, a logic machine, and a storage machine that holds instructions executable by the logic machine to detect a gesture based upon information received from a first sensor of the plurality of sensors, perform an action in response to detecting the gesture, and determine whether the gesture matches an intended gesture input. The instructions are further executable to update a gesture parameter that defines the intended gesture input if it is determined that the gesture detected does not match the intended gesture input.

Gesture parameter tuning

A system and method are disclosed for building virtual content from within a virtual environment using virtual tools to build and modify the virtual content.

Building holographic content using holographic tools

Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received from a capture device. The user's hand is spaced by an initial actual distance from the capture device, and a holographic keyboard image is displayed spatially separated by a virtual distance from a holographic hand image. The user's hand is determined to move to an updated actual distance from the capture device. In response, the holographic keyboard image is maintained spatially separated by substantially the virtual distance from the holographic hand image.

Holographic keyboard display

A system and method are disclosed for capturing views of a mixed reality environment from various perspectives which can be displayed on a monitor. The system includes one or more physical cameras at user-defined positions within the mixed reality environment. The system renders virtual objects in the mixed reality environment from the perspective of the one or more cameras. Real and virtual objects from the mixed reality environment may then be displayed from the perspective of the one or more cameras on one or more external, 2D monitor for viewing by others.

Holographic bird's eye view camera

Methods for automatically generating a texture exemplar that may be used for rendering virtual objects that appear to be made from the texture exemplar are described. In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device (HMD) may identify a real-world object within an environment, acquire a three-dimensional model of the real-world object, determine a portion of the real-world object from which a texture exemplar is to be generated, capture one or more images of the portion of the real-world object, determine an orientation of the real-world object, and generate the texture exemplar using the one or more images, the three-dimensional model, and the orientation of the real-world object. The HMD may then render and display images of a virtual object such that the virtual object appears to be made from a virtual material associated with the texture exemplar.

Automatic generation of virtual materials from real-world materials

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