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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shih-Sang Chiu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin H. Boesel, Jackson, WY (US);
Jonathan Perron, Felton, CA (US);
Christopher D. Mckenzie, Burlingame, CA (US);
Dorian D. Dargan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Nathan Gitter, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jonathan Ravasz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Benjamin Hylak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoey C. Taylor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a computer system selectively recenters virtual content to a viewpoint of a user, in the presence of physical or virtual obstacles, and/or automatically recenters one or more virtual objects in response to the display generation component changing state, selectively recenters content associated with a communication session between multiple users in response detected user input, changes the visual prominence of content included in virtual objects based on viewpoint and/or based on a detected user attention of a user, modifies visual prominence of one or more virtual objects to resolve apparent obscuring of the one or more virtual objects, modifies visual prominence based on user viewpoint relative to virtual objects, concurrently modifies visual prominence based various types of user interaction, and/or changes an amount of visual impact of an environmental effect in response to detected user input.