Selective Boundaries for an Application Executing in an Artificial Reality Environment

Organization Name

meta platforms technologies, llc

Inventor(s)

Biju Mathew of San Ramon CA US

Christopher Richard Tanner of Highlands Ranch CO US

Jianhan Xu of Vancouver CA

Wenxin Xu of Foster City CA US

Shen Li of Roslyn Heights NY US

Peter Ju of San Mateo CA US

James Alexander Valori of San Francisco CA US

Eric Leung of San Francisco CA US

Lu Zhou of San Francisco CA US

Selective Boundaries for an Application Executing in an Artificial Reality Environment

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250104366 titled 'Selective Boundaries for an Application Executing in an Artificial Reality Environment

Original Abstract Submitted

instead of having a constant boundary, artificial reality (xr) applications that can run in boundaryless mode (e.g., in augmented or mixed reality) can be given controls by selective boundary system on an xr system to customize partial boundaries. for example, an application can specify to select particular boundaries when certain object types are in the real-world environment. in another example, an application can transition to different boundary modes when certain application events occur (e.g., when transitioning from virtual reality to mixed reality). on the backend, the selective boundary system can provide the application with an api that exposes boundary information. based on this information, the application can use the api to create new boundaries or turn on or off certain boundaries based on requests by the application.