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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2024
Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ali Emami, San Diego, CA (US);
Aaron Selig, Watsonville, CA (US);
Ahad Habib Basravi, Oakland, CA (US);
James Michael-K O'donnell, Pacifica, CA (US);
Nathaniel Lane, Wrentham, MA (US);
Todd Harris, Woodinville, WA (US);
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to artificial reality (XR) controllers and hand gestures and corresponding representation of the hand gestures in XR space. Users can benefit from being able to use touch interactions while also holding the XR controller. Example implementations allow a user to use controllers for distance interaction and interactions that require controller buttons, but also recognize when the user extends her finger and wants to manually touch things—using touch in conjunction with controllers. Thus, if the user has a controller in her hand and want to touch a UI element, she can also use her finger, where the system identifies the finger not touching the controller (e.g., via capacitance sensors) and that a hand pose is present (e.g., finger extended—from camera) to allow that finger to provide hand input, without the user having to put down the controller.