Apple Inc.

Nicholas W Henderson

Philipp Rockel

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Giancarlo Yerkes

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Israel Pastrana Vicente

Connor A Smith

Jeffrey M Faulkner

Wesley M Holder

Alan C Dye

Gary Ian Butcher

Jonathan R Dascola

Peter D Anton

Jason D Rickwald

Bruno M Sommer

Dorian D Dargan

Kristi E S Bauerly

Robert T Tilton

Rupert Burton

Timofey Grechkin

Richard R Dellinger

Pedro Mari

Nicolas V Scapel

Rudolph Van Der Merwe

Pol Pla I Conesa

Ieyuki Kawashima

Benjamin Hunter Boesel

Alex Tremain Nelson

Benjamin Hylak

Christopher D Mckenzie

James M Dessero

Jeffrey S Allen

Nikhil P Singh

Bruno Jospeh Martin Conejo

Kristi ES Bauerly

Avatars may be displayed in a multiuser communication session using various spatial modes. One technique for presenting avatars includes presenting avatars such that an attention direction of the avatar is retargeted to match the intent of the remote user corresponding to the avatar. Another technique for presenting avatars includes a pinned mode in which a spatial relationship between one or more avatars remains displayed in a consistent spatial relationship to a local user regardless of movements of the local user. Another technique for presenting avatars includes providing user-selectable presentation modes between a room scale mode and a stationary mode for presenting a representation of a multiuser communication session.

Avatar spatial modes

Computer display system or portion thereof showing an animated graphical user interface having a three dimensional appearance

In some embodiments, a computer system receives data representing a pose of at least a first portion of a user and causes presentation of an avatar that includes a respective avatar feature corresponding to the first portion of the user and presented having a variable display characteristic that is indicative of a certainty of the pose of the first portion of the user. In some embodiments, a computer system receives data indicating current activity of one or more users is activity of a first type and, in response, updates a representation of a user having a first appearance based on a first appearance template. The system receives second data indicating current activity of the one or more users and, in response, updates the appearance of the representation of the first user based on the current activity of the one or more users using the first or a second appearance template.

Presenting avatars in three-dimensional environments

A computer system displays a first user interface object with a first appearance at a first position in a first view of a three-dimensional environment that is at least partially shared between a first and second user. While displaying the first user interface object, the computer system detects a first user input by the first user. In response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the second user is not currently interacting with the first user interface object, the computer system performs a first operation; and in accordance with a determination that the second user is currently interacting with the first user interface object, the computer system displays a visual indication, that the first user interface object is not available for interaction, including changing an appearance or position of the first user interface object, and forgoes performing the first operation.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with three-dimensional environments

While displaying a three-dimensional scene including at least a first virtual object displayed with a first value corresponding to a first portion and a second value corresponding to a second portion of the first virtual object at a first location and a first physical surface at a second location, a computer system generates a first visual effect at the second location of the three-dimensional scene, including modifying a visual appearance of a first portion of the first physical surface in the three-dimensional scene in accordance with the first value for the first display property that corresponds to the first portion of the first virtual object; and modifying a visual appearance of a second portion of the first physical surface in the three-dimensional scene in accordance with the second value for the first display property that corresponds to the second portion of the first virtual object.

In some embodiments, an electronic device emphasizes and/or deemphasizes user interfaces based on the gaze of a user. In some embodiments, an electronic device defines levels of immersion for different user interfaces independently of one another. In some embodiments, an electronic device resumes display of a user interface at a previously-displayed level of immersion after (e.g., temporarily) reducing the level of immersion associated with the user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device allows objects, people, and/or portions of an environment to be visible through a user interface displayed by the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device reduces the level of immersion associated with a user interface based on characteristics of the electronic device and/or physical environment of the electronic device.

Methods for adjusting and/or controlling immersion associated with user interfaces

Split applications and virtual objects in a multi-user communication session may include presenting, for a first device, a first environmental representation of the multi-user communication session, wherein the first device and the second device are active in the multi-user communication session, and wherein the first environmental representation and a second environmental representation of the multi-user communication session for the second device comprise one or more shared virtual objects presented in a common spatial configuration; duplicating a particular shared virtual object that is located at an initial location in the common spatial configuration; determining a modified location for the duplicated virtual object in the first environmental representation; and presenting a modified first environmental representation comprising the duplicated virtual object at the modified location.

Split applications in a multi-user communication session

A computer system displays a first view of a three-dimensional environment, including a first user interface object, while a first user is at a first location in a first physical environment. A respective position of the first user interface object in the three-dimensional environment corresponds to a respective location of the first object in a second physical environment. The computer system detects movement of the first user in the first physical environment or movement of the first object in the second physical environment, and in response, displays a second view corresponding to a second viewpoint, and the first user interface object in the second view. The first user interface object is displayed at a first or second display position, in accordance with a determination that the respective position of the first user interface object is more or less than a threshold distance from the second viewpoint, respectively.

A computing system, while displaying a first view of a first computer-generated three-dimensional environment including a representation of a respective portion of a physical environment, and a first representation of one or more projections of light in a first portion of the first computer-generated three-dimensional environment, detects, from a first user, a query directed to a virtual assistant. In response, the computer system displays animated changes of the first representation of the one or more projections of light in the first portion of the first computer-generated three-dimensional environment, including displaying a second representation of the one or more projections of light that is focused on a first sub-portion of the first portion, and then displays content responding to the query at a position corresponding to the first sub-portion of the first portion.

A method and apparatus of a device that builds a target using a plurality of processing units is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an input audio track having a first duration, the input audio track having a plurality of points. The device further generates a transition matrix of the input audio track, wherein the transition matrix indicates a similarity metric between different pairs of the plurality of points. In addition, the device determines a set of jump points using the different pairs of the plurality of points. The device additionally generates the rearranged audio track using the set of jump points, wherein the rearranged audio track has second duration and the second duration is different than the first duration.

Systems and methods for automated music rearrangement

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Nicholas W Henderson