Virtual object structures and interrelationships

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process for defining a virtual object with a modular design process, the process comprising:

• defining an inheritance, for the virtual object, in an object hierarchy by specifying a parent object, wherein the inheritance causes the virtual object to initially inherit components from the parent object;
• specifying modifications to the inherited components as:
• additional and/or alternate components;
• and/or
• additional and/or alternate elements of the inherited components;
• wherein a final template component includes multiple view states with contextual breakpoints specifying transitions between the multiple view states;
• and
• defining, in relation to the modified components, associations between at least portions of a data component and portions of the multiple view states;
• wherein:
• the controller component defines logic that causes the virtual object to react to one or more of:
• which other people or objects are in the vicinity, how the virtual object is grouped with or linked to other objects, a state associated with a current user, or a combination thereof;
• or
• each of the multiple view states, when that view state is the active view state for the virtual object, controls what data elements the virtual object is presenting and how the virtual object is presenting those data elements.

A computing system for defining a virtual object with a modular design process, the computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform a process comprising:
• defining an inheritance, for the virtual object, in an object hierarchy by specifying a parent object, wherein the inheritance causes the virtual object to initially inherit components, from the parent object, including a container component, a template component, a data component, and a controller component;
• specifying modifications to the inherited components as:
• additional and/or alternate components;
• and/or
• additional and/or alternate elements of the inherited components;
• and
• defining associations between at least portions of the modified components;
• wherein:
• the controller component defines logic that causes the virtual object to react to one or more of:
• which other people or objects are in the vicinity, how the virtual object is grouped with or linked to other objects, a state associated with a current user, or a combination thereof;
• the controller component defines logic, for the virtual object, controlling how the virtual object responds to contexts including one or more of user actions, a determined world state, and/or outputs from system services or applications;
• the container component defines a volume that the virtual object is authorized, by an application controlling an artificial reality environment, to write into;
• or
• each of multiple view states, when that view state is the active view state for the virtual object, controls what data elements the virtual object is presenting and how the virtual object is presenting those data elements.