Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Shir Lene Lim

Anush Mohan

Eugene Lee

Yuichi Taguchi

Jeng-Weei Lin

David Frederick Geisert

Wei Lyu

Brittany Baxter

In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, for one or more displays of a VR display device, a first output image of a VR environment based on a field of view of a first user. The method includes determining whether a second user is approaching within a threshold distance of the first user and outside the field of view of the first user. The method includes rendering, responsive to determining the second user is approaching within the threshold distance of the first user and outside the field of view of the first user, for the one or more displays of the VR display device, a second output image comprising a directional warning. The directional warning may indicate a direction of movement of the second user relative to the first user.

Directional warnings in co-located play in virtual reality environments

Implementations described herein can share scene data between multiple artificial reality (XR) devices, such as head-mounted displays (HMDs). A first XR device can retrieve stored spatial anchors associated with a scene, and align a coordinate frame with coordinate frames for a second XR device using the spatial anchors. The second XR device can have identified physical objects in the scene with corresponding object types defined in a scene lexicon (e.g., with a camera on the second XR device capturing images of physical objects and performing object recognition or through manual tagging of objects with object types), and store the object types and locations of the physical objects as scene data. The first XR device can obtain the scene data based on associations between the scene data and the spatial anchors and render virtual objects using the scene data, without having to rescan the scene for the physical objects.

Shared scene co-location for artificial reality devices

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