Apple patents AR tools for editing shared 3D content without breaking sync
Apple describes a system for extended reality collaboration that lets users switch from a synchronized view to an unsynchronized editing mode. This allows one person to modify a 3D document while others continue viewing the original version without seeing the changes in real-time.
In the filing’s own words
Techniques and user interfaces for collaborating on content and sharing content in an extended reality environment. In some embodiments, while a user is collaborating with another user, a computer system switches from spatially synchronized viewing to unsynchronized viewing when the user edits a document. In some embodiments, content is added to a three-dimensional environment and is shared in a real-time communication session in response to a computer system detecting a set of one or more inputs including a request to add content to the three-dimensional environment in the real-time communication session.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer system configured to communicate with one or more display generation components and one or more input devices, the computer system comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: while the computer system is in a collaboration session with two or more participants, wherein the collaboration session includes content that is configured to be edited in the collaboration session by the two or more participants, and wherein the computer system is associated with a first participant of the collaboration session: while the computer system is in a first mode of the collaboration session: displaying, via the one or more display generation components, a first view of the content, wherein the first view of the content is shared by the two or more participants in the collaboration session; and detecting, via the one or more input devices, an input corresponding to a request to enter a second mode of the collaboration session that is different from the first mode of the collaboration session; in response to detecting the input corresponding to the request to enter the second mode of the collaboration session: entering the second mode of the collaboration session; and editing the content; and while the computer system is in the second mode of the collaboration session: displaying, via the one or more display generation components, a second view of the content; and in response to a second participant changing a respective view of the content, maintaining display, via the one or more display generation components, of the second view of the content.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- DEVICES, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR CONTENT COLLABORATION AND SHARING
- Publication number
- US20260299747A1
- Application number
- 19698552
- Filed
- Jun 4, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 34
Classified under
G06F 3/04815 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 Physics & computingMore from Apple in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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