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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gioacchino Noris, Zurich, CH;
Panya Inversin, Zurich, CH;
James Allan Booth, Zurich, CH;
Sarthak Ray, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alessia Marra, Zurich, CH;
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from the first user, a request to create a joint virtual space to use with one or more second users, determining a first area in a first room associated with the first user based at least in part on space limitations associated with the first room and locations of one or more items in the first room, retrieving information associated with one or more second rooms for each of the second users, creating, based on first area of the first room and the information associated with each of the second rooms, the joint virtual space, and providing access to the joint virtual space to the first user and each of the one or more second users.