Apple Inc.

Novaira Masood

Shem Nguyen

Jeremy Ray Bernstein

Pravalika Avvaru

Eric Geusz

Arnold H Cachelin

Mark E Drummond

Zachary Z Becker

Bo Morgan

Michelle Chua

Karen Natalie Wong

Eric John Geusz

Some examples of the disclosure are directed to object manipulators and associated processes for manipulating an object representation in a three-dimensional environment. The object representation may correspond to a scan of a real-world object in a real-world environment. The object manipulators may include an object cleanup manipulator and a text annotation manipulator. The object cleanup manipulator may be selectable to display one or more control affordances providing functionality for selectively removing portions of the object representation in the three-dimensional environment and/or selectively adjusting one or more parameters of the object representation in the three-dimensional environment. The text annotation manipulator may be selectable to display one or more control affordances providing functionality for selectively generating one or more text labels in the three-dimensional environment. The one or more text labels may be associated with the object representation in the three-dimensional environment.

System and method of three-dimensional object cleanup and text annotation

A digital assistant may be used with a computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, a digital assistant is invoked and/or terminated via user input. In some embodiments, the digital assistant is displaying in a computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, the digital assistant may be used to interact with objects in a computer-generated environment. Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for a digital assistant provide an improved user experience for computer-generated environments.

Devices and methods for digital assistant

Visual programming provides an efficient and intuitive user experience in an enhanced reality computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, a graphical representation of a programming structure is displayed in a computer-generated environment, and various interactions with the graphical representation of the programming structure are provided to define behavior of objects in a computer-generated environment. In some embodiments, the behavior of the object is defined by a trigger and an action. In some embodiments, the various interactions include adding one or more graphical representations of programming objects to the graphical representation of the programming structure, removing one or more graphical representations of programming objects from the graphical representation of the programming structure or from the computer-generated environment, and/or previewing the behavior defined by the graphical representation of the programming structure.

Devices and methods for visual programming

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for training of an action determining component of a computer character. In some implementations, actions are taken by the character in a 3D environment according to an action determining component of the character, where the character is rewarded or penalized for interactions associated with an object/concept in the 3D environment according to an assigned object/concept reward or penalty. In some implementations, the reward or the penalty assigned to the object/concept is modified, and the character is then rewarded or penalized for interactions associated with the object/concept according to the modified reward or the modified penalty. The action determining component of the character is trained using a reinforcement learning technique that accounts for rewards or penalties obtained by virtual character for interactions associated with the object/concept.

Training a character through interactions

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for identifying virtual object kits that may be used to generate a target virtual object. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a plurality of virtual object kits that generate variations of respective virtual object types. Each virtual object kit is associated with a characteristic parameter. For each virtual object kit, a subset of possible virtual object variations of the virtual object type is generated by assigning corresponding values to the characteristic parameter based on a distribution criterion. A subset of the plurality of virtual object kits is identified based on the target virtual object being within a similarity threshold of one or more virtual object variations generated using the subset of the plurality of virtual object kits in response to a request to assemble a target virtual object.

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Novaira Masood