Apple patents virtual characters that react to real-world conditions

1. A method comprising: at an electronic device in communication with a display and one or more input devices: presenting, using the display, a computer-generated environment including a real-world environment and a virtual agent with an affinity for one or more characteristics of the real-world environment, wherein the one or more characteristics include at least one of lighting, materials, temperature, or geographic properties; while presenting the computer-generated environment, detecting, using the one or more input devices, a first characteristic of the one or more characteristics of the real-world environment; and causing the virtual agent to perform a first action in accordance with the first characteristic of the real-world environment and in accordance with the affinity for the one or more characteristics including a first affinity for the first characteristic, wherein: the first action includes one of performing an activity, orienting the virtual agent or a virtual object in the computer-generated environment, placing the virtual object in the computer-generated environment, movement of the virtual agent or modifying the movement of the virtual agent, or dwelling in the computer-generated environment; and the movement of the virtual agent in accordance with the first characteristic of the real-world environment and in accordance with the affinity for the one or more characteristics including the first affinity for the first characteristic comprises moving toward or in one or more first regions of the computer-generated environment that the virtual agent favors and moving from or avoiding one or more second regions of the computer-generated environment that the virtual agent disfavors.