Cross reality system with simplified programming of virtual content
Inventors
Zhang, Haiyan • MacDONALD, Robert John Cummings
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Publication Number
US-12430861-B2
Publication Date
2025-09-30
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Abstract
A cross reality system that renders virtual content generated by executing native mode applications may be configured to render web-based content using components that render content from native applications. The system may include a Prism manager that provides Prisms in which content from executing native applications is rendered. For rendering web based content, a browser, accessing the web based content, may be associated with a Prism and may render content into its associated Prism, creating the same immersive experience for the user as when content is generated by a native application. The user may access the web application from the same program launcher menu as native applications. The system may have tools that enable a user to access these capabilities, including by creating for a web location an installable entity that, when processed by the system, results in an icon for the web content in a program launcher menu.
Core Innovation
The invention concerns operating a mixed reality system configured to render virtual content by receiving user input associated with a first application and determining whether the first application is a native application or a browser. Based on the determination, the system executes the native application and renders first content through a first prism associated with the native application, where the first prism is a first volume within which the first content is to be displayed.
In response to determining that the first application is a browser, the system renders second content from a link using the browser. The system obtains information through the link in a standardized form representing the second content, launches an instance of the browser linked to a second prism, and renders the second content within the second prism based on the obtained standardized form.
The second prism is a volume managed by the mixed reality system within which the second content is to be displayed. The disclosed approach also supports dependent refinements for browser content handling in the mixed reality system, including conditional enabling of browser access based on user authorization and installable-entity processing that generates icons associated with links and registry entries linking those icons to the links.
Claims Coverage
The provided claim set includes two independent claims. Across the independent claims, there are two core inventive groupings: prism-volume rendering that depends on whether the first application is native or a browser, and browser rendering from a link using information in a standardized form representing the second content into a prism volume managed by the mixed reality system.
Native versus browser application prism-volume rendering
A method and a corresponding system that receives user input associated with a first application, determines whether the first application is a native application or a browser, and in response to a native application executes the native application and renders first content through a first prism associated with the native application, the first prism being a first volume within which the first content is to be displayed.
Standardized link information prism rendering for browser content
A method and a corresponding system that in response to determining that the first application is a browser, renders second content from a link with the browser by obtaining information through the link in a standardized form representing the second content and, based on the obtained information, rendering the second content within a second prism linked to the browser, where the second prism is a volume managed by the mixed reality system within which the second content is to be displayed.
The independent claims cover a mixed reality system behavior that conditionally renders content via distinct prism volumes based on whether the associated application is native or browser, and that supports browser-based rendering of linked content using a standardized form obtained through the link.
Stated Advantages
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Documented Applications
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