Magic Leap, Inc.

Vinayram Balakumar

Ali Shahrokni

Griffith Buckley Hazen

Ben Weisbih

Amy Dedonato

Ashwin Swaminathan

Frank Thomas Steinbruecker

Daniel E Koppel

Lipu Zhou

Hui Ju

Konstantinos Zampogiannis

Pooja Piyush Mehta

An augmented reality device may communicate with a map server via an API interface to provide mapping data that may be implemented into a canonical map, and may also receive map data from the map server. A visualization of map quality, including quality indicators for multiple cells of the environment, may be provided to the user as an overlay to the current real-world environment seen through the AR device. These visualizations may include, for example, a map quality minimap and/or a map quality overlay. The visualizations provide guidance to the user that allows more efficient updates to the map, thereby improving map quality and localization of users into the map.

Augmented reality map curation

Methods and apparatus for providing a representation of an environment, for example, in an XR system, and any suitable computer vision and robotics applications. A representation of an environment may include one or more planar features. The representation of the environment may be provided by jointly optimizing plane parameters of the planar features and sensor poses that the planar features are observed at. The joint optimization may be based on a reduced matrix and a reduced residual vector in lieu of the Jacobian matrix and the original residual vector.

Computationally efficient method for computing a composite representation of a 3D environment

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Vinayram Balakumar