Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Timothy James Schutz

Jason Matthew Cahill

Torfi Frans Olafsson

Jesse Dylan Merriam

Michael Meincke Persson

Jason Bradley Scott

Jonathan Gustav Paulovich

John Copic

David Anthony Evans

Jedd Chevrier

Described herein is a system and method for sharing an AR game within a shared coordinate space created between devices with initially disjoint relative coordinate spaces. Once the shared coordinate space is created, an AR video game can provide a first mode in which the users engage in game play action that have consequences according to pre-established game rules. The AR video game can provide a second mode ('sandbox mode') in which users engage in non-destructive game play actions that do not have consequences once the second mode has been terminated. Further described herein is a system and method of using geolocation information within an AR session in which a virtual action can be initiated by a user that causes a corresponding virtual action to be displayed on a map of a virtual environment that parallels a physical environment displayed on a user gaming device of another user.

Shared augmented reality game within a shared coordinate space

A technique is described herein for placing a virtual object within any type of modified-reality environment. The technique involves receiving the user's specification of plural values in plural stages. The plural values collectively define an object display state. The technique places the virtual object in the modified-reality environment in accordance with the object display state. Overall, the technique allows the user to place the virtual object in the modified-reality environment with high precision and low ambiguity by virtue of its guided piecemeal specification of the object display state.

Multi-step placement of virtual objects

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Timothy James Schutz