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Robert J Jarrett

Chaitanya Dev Sareen

Jesse Clay Satterfield

Nils Anders Sundelin

Bret P Anderson

Matthew Isaac Worley

Jennifer Nan

Miron Vranjes

Patrice Lynn Miner

Leroy B Keely

Emily K Rimas-Ribikauskas

Tsz Yan Wong

F David Jones

Alice Pritikin Steinglass

Marieke Watson Iwema

Charlton E Lui

Stephan Hoefnagels

David Andrew Matthews

Reed L Townsend

Jensen Michael Harris

Steven P Dodge

Richard Jennings Duncan

Richard Fang

Philip Ti-Fei Su

Bodin Dresevic

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Jeffrey West Pettiross

Matthew Rubin Lerner

Ryan Edward Cukierman

Christopher Doan

Subha Bhattacharyay

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Harold S Gomez

Shawna Julie Davis

Jeremy Monroe Bowen

Mohammed Samji

Song Zou

Leroy Bertrand Keely, Jr

Bryan Douglas Scott

Eric B Fox

Aleksandar Uzelac

Weidong Zhao

Sriram Viji

Emily K Rimas Ribikauskas

Susanne Alysia Clark Cazzanti

Rick Duncan

Gerhard A Schobbe

Yaou Wei

Emily Rimas

Richie Fang

Zach Robinson

Michael H Krause

David Leininger Adolphson Anson

Abhishek Malani

Zachary Grant Herman

Michael Seibert

Emily K Ribas-Ribikauskas

Brigette Krantz

Martyn S Lovell

Rolf Arnold Ebeling

Kyril Feldman

Paul J Kwiatkowski

Rebecca J Deutsch

Benjamin Betz

Joshua Clow

Gabriel S DeBacker

Alexandre Coelho

Matthew P Duignan

Christopher Michael Becker

Thomas Russo

Brian S LeVee

Scott Petill

Steven James Frederickson

Nazeeh Amin Eldirghami

Sankhyayan Debnath

Ernest L Pennington, Ii

Guy Barker

Alan Stephenson

Matt Lerner

Qixing Zheng

Billie Sue Chafins

Jiashi Zhang

Jacob A Bomgardner

Daniel Draper

Steven Welch

Paul Stephen Gildea

Jay Turney

Christopher M Weidman

Joshua Erik Walton

Gabriel S Debacker

Michael A Seibert

Brian S Levee

Thomas P Russo

Townsend Reed

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable a user to alter sizes and/or a layout of multiple immersive interfaces with as little as one selection.

Managing an immersive interface in a multi-application immersive environment

An application window divider control is shared by a first application window and a second application window in a user interface. Based on a received directional instruction that moves the application window divider control along an axis of the user interface, placement of the first application window and the second application window may be positioned across a range of consistently spaced points along an axis of the user interface. Placement adjustment can also impact other application windows in the user interface. The application window divider control may also snap to provide 'magnetic' points along the axis when certain conditions are satisfied.

Application window divider control for window layout management

Described herein are techniques for automatically forming groups of application windows. The techniques may be performed with a computing device executing a windowing system, the windowing system having a user interface element that can be interacted with by a user to manage applications executing on the computing device. Each application may correspond to a separate process and application window. It may be determined that an operation has occurred that will evict the application windows of target applications from the display, and in response an application group may be automatically formed. The application group may have indicia of the evicted target applications. The application group may be provided to the user interface element, and when the user interface element is interacted with by the user the user interface element displays user-selectable graphic application indicators for both the application group and applications other than the target applications.

Auto-grouping of application windows

A user can select content on an interface screen and provide an associated directional placement instruction to launch a new application window that displays the selected content or information associated with the selected content. The directional placement instruction may indicate an area of the screen where the user prefers to display the new application window. Responsive to the initiation of the directional placement instruction, a conversion module converts the selected content into a placeable representation of the new application. Responsive to receipt of the directional placement instruction, a window management system presents the new application window in the user interface in a location based on the directional placement instruction.

Content-based directional placement application launch

A head mounted display device is provided that includes a display device, a camera device, an input device, and a processor. The processor is configured to store a database of physical objects and virtual objects that have been associated with one or more semantic tags. The processor is further configured to receive a natural language input from a user via the input device and perform semantic processing on the natural language input to determine a user specified operation and identify one or more semantic tags indicated by the natural language input. The processor is further configured to select a target virtual object and a target physical object based on the identified one or more semantic tags, perform the determined user specified operation on the target virtual object based on the target physical object, and display the target virtual object at a physical location associated with the target physical object.

Semantically tagged virtual and physical objects

Presented herein are techniques for invoking user interfaces in graphical computing environments involving 'hooking' gestures applicable to an edge of a display. These gestures involve positioning a pointer near an edge of the display depicting the environment, and then moving the cursor to a second location that is distanced from but near the first location (e.g., moving the pointer into a corner of the display, and then toward the center of the display, or to a midpoint of an adjacent edge of the display), resulting in the presentation of the user interface under the pointer at the second location. Variations include presenting a preview of the user interface (e.g., a subset of a user interface menu) at the second location while the pointer is in the first location, and refraining from presenting the user interface upon failing to complete the gesture or receiving extraneous input before completing the gesture.

Edge-based hooking gestures for invoking user interfaces

Techniques are described herein that are capable of containing an application in an immersive non-windowed environment. For instance, the application may be configured for use in a windowed environment. Containing the application in the immersive non-windowed environment may involve selectively implementing functionality that is associated with the application based at least in part on whether the functionality is applicable to the immersive non-windowed environment. For example, when a request to implement functionality that is not applicable to the immersive non-windowed environment is received, functionality that is applicable to the immersive non-windowed environment may be implemented in lieu of the functionality that is not applicable to the immersive non-windowed environment. In another example, no action may be taken with regard to the request.

Containing an application in an immersive non-windowed environment

Techniques for an experience mode transition are described. Generally, an experience mode refers to a visual and functional arrangement that is presented to a user of a device. Different experience modes present different visual and functional arrangements to a user. According to various embodiments, a computing device is configured to operate in multiple experience modes and may transition between different experience modes and based on a variety of different triggering events. Generally, a transition between different experience modes causes a visual and/or functional reconfiguration of a user experience on a device.

Experience mode transition

Computing devices, head-mounted display devices and methods for processing spatial input signals from a pointing device are disclosed. In one example, a pointer is displayed within a desktop window that represents an operating system shell generated by a computing device. The desktop window and the pointer are displayed via a head-mounted display device within a three-dimensional environment. Spatial input signals are received from the pointing device and are translated into two-dimensional motion of the pointer within the desktop window. Based on determining that a location of the pointer moves outside the desktop window, the spatial input signals are translated into three-dimensional motion of the pointer within the three-dimensional environment displayed via the head-mounted display device.

Head-mounted display input translation

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