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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gabriel Valdivia, London, GB;
Cliff Warren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maheen Sohail, Surrey, CA;
Christophe Marcel Rene Tauziet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandros Alexander, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Stephen Booth, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Charles Matthew Sutton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes sending information configured to render a virtual space on a display device associated with a first user, the virtual space comprising a virtual room; receiving an input from a first user selecting a particular virtual object; calculating a score for a set of interactive-surface types, the score being based on a current context, wherein the current context is based on information associated with the virtual object; selecting, from the set of interactive-surface types, one of the interactive-surface types based on the selected interactive-surface type having a score greater than a threshold score; and sending information configured to render an interactive surface that is of the selected interactive-surface type.