Meta patents shared 3D space for friends in different rooms
Meta describes a system that lets two people in different physical rooms share the same virtual environment. It finds similar spots in each person's room to anchor virtual objects, ensuring they appear in the same relative position for everyone.
In the filing’s own words
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a shared coordinate system for extra reality (XR) copresence that selects origin points, within real-world spaces, relative to which virtual content can be placed, that make shared activities more natural and intuitive, while keeping the relative positions for any shared virtual objects intact. For example, the system can select the origin point based on constraints and features defined by, for example, characteristics of the users' physical spaces (e.g., size, layout, furniture, open space, etc.), existing avatars already in the XR environment and their location relative to their existing origin points, requirements of virtual objects (e.g., must be rendered on a wall or tabletop), etc. In some cases, the system can construct a model matching the users' spaces and select respective origin points for content based on locations within the matching areas that meet the defined constraints.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for providing a shared coordinate system for extra reality copresence, the method comprising: obtaining first scene data corresponding to a first real-world space surrounding a first extra reality system; obtaining second scene data corresponding to a second real-world space surrounding a second extra reality system; determining at least one area, based on the first scene data, in the first real-world space that A) meets one or more constraints and that B) matches at least a minimum set of features determined for a portion of the second real-world space based on the second scene data; based at least partially on the determined at least one area: selecting a first origin point, for the first extra reality system, within the first real-world space and for an extra reality environment, wherein a second origin point, for the second extra reality system, is selected within the second real-world space and for the extra reality environment; and facilitating rendering of one or more virtual objects, in the extra reality environment, such that the position and orientation of each virtual object, relative to the first origin point on the first extra reality system, is the same position and orientation that the virtual object has relative to the second origin point when rendered on the second extra reality system.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- Shared Coordinate System for Extra Reality Copresence
- Publication number
- US20260303692A1
- Application number
- 19092467
- Filed
- Mar 27, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 67/131 Electricity & electronicsG06T 19/20 Physics & computingMore from Meta 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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