US 11,893,674 B2 · Interactive avatars in artificial reality

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating interactive avatars that can be pinned as world-locked artificial reality content. Once pinned, an avatar can interact with the environment according to contextual queues and rules, without active control by the avatar owner. An interactive avatar system can configure the avatar with action rules, visual elements, and settings based on user selections. Once an avatar is configured and pinned to a location by an avatar owner, when other XR devices are at that location, a central system can provide the avatar (with its configurations) to the other XR device. This allows a user of that other XR device to discover and interact with the avatar according to the configurations established by the avatar owner.

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Dependent claims

A method for creating an interactive avatar pinned as world-locked artificial reality content, the method comprising:

setting, at a first computing system, an appearance of the interactive avatar that controls how the interactive avatar appears when pinned to a real-world location and viewed through a second artificial reality computing system different from the first computing system;
and
receiving, at the first computing system, a selection of one or more reactions, wherein:
components of the interactive avatar, including indications of A) the interactive avatar's appearance and B) at least one of the one or more reactions, are provided to the second artificial reality computing system for display at the pinned real-world location when the second artificial reality computing system is within a threshold distance of the pinned real-world location;
and
the selected one or more reactions control how the interactive avatar acts, when viewed through the second artificial reality computing system.

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A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a process for creating an interactive avatar pinned as world-locked artificial reality content, the process comprising:

setting, at a first computing system, an appearance of the interactive avatar that controls how the interactive avatar appears when pinned to a real-world location and viewed through a second artificial reality computing system different from the first computing system;
and
receiving, at the first computing system, a selection of one or more reactions, wherein:
components of the interactive avatar, including indications of A) the interactive avatar's appearance and B) at least one of the one or more reactions, are provided to the second artificial reality computing system for display at the pinned real-world location when the second artificial reality computing system is within a threshold distance of the pinned real-world location;
and
the selected one or more reactions control how the interactive avatar acts, when viewed through the second artificial reality computing system.

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A computing system for creating an interactive avatar pinned as world-locked artificial reality content, 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:
setting, at a first computing system, an appearance of the interactive avatar that controls how the interactive avatar appears when pinned to a real-world location and viewed through a second artificial reality computing system different from the first computing system;
and
receiving, at the first computing system, a selection of one or more reactions, wherein:
components of the interactive avatar, including indications of A) the interactive avatar's appearance and B) at least one of the one or more reactions, are provided to the second artificial reality computing system for display at the pinned real-world location when the second artificial reality computing system is within a threshold distance of the pinned real-world location;
and
the selected one or more reactions control how the interactive avatar acts, when viewed through the second artificial reality computing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Interactive avatars in artificial reality

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