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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2021
Niantic, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Niantic International Technology Limited, Bristol, GB;
John Hanke, Piedmont, CA (US);
Chihiro Kanno, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuki Sonoda, Saitama, JP;
Tatsuo Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Kousuke Kawahira, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Morikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shunsuke Uematsu, Tokyo, JP;
Madoka Katayama, Tokyo, JP;
Motoki Yano, Kyoto, JP;
Niantic, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system provides an augmented reality (AR) experience in a parallel-reality application in which a geography of a virtual world parallels a geography of the real world. The system receives a connection request from a client device and receives a route that the client device traversed in the real world. The route comprises a plurality of locations in the real world. The system determines a plurality of virtual locations to place virtual elements at, where each virtual element corresponds to a location in the real world of the route. The system updates a global state of the AR experience to include the plurality of virtual elements at the plurality of virtual locations. The system provides, to a second client device, AR data including some of the virtual locations for display of some of the virtual elements at the corresponding locations in the real world.