Magic Leap, Inc.

Tomislav Pejsa

Victor Ng-Thow-Hing

Koichi Mori

Federico Schliemann

Francisco Lopez-Fresquet

Richard St Clair Bailey

Dushan Vasilevski

Examples of systems and methods to facilitate audiovisual presence transitions of virtual objects such as virtual avatars in a mixed reality collaborative environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to produce different audiovisual presence transitions such as appearance, disappearance and reappearance of the virtual avatars. The virtual avatar audiovisual transitions may be further indicated by various visual and sound effects of the virtual avatars. The transitions may occur based on various colocation or decolocation scenarios.

Audiovisual presence transitions in a collaborative reality environment

Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.

Privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications

Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit ('IMU'), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.

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Tomislav Pejsa