Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Group travel between artificial reality destinations
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Application No.: US18045203Application Date: 2022-10-10
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Publication No.: US12218944B1Publication Date: 2025-02-04
- Inventor: Michael Hadley , Danyang Zhao , Patrick McGartoll , Nicolas Sleiman Machado
- Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Potomac Law Group, PLLC
- Agent Dannon G. Allbee
- Main IPC: H04L9/40
- IPC: H04L9/40 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F21/10 ; G06T19/00 ; H04L67/131

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to group travel between artificial reality (XR) destinations. Currently, users in an artificial reality (XR) experience cannot travel with a group to a specific destination or between destinations (e.g., to and from virtual worlds, levels, applications, etc.). Thus, some implementations assign users within a group in a multiplayer XR experience (e.g., a virtual lobby) a same session identifier. When the users select a destination, some implementations can provide a computing system hosting the destination with the session identifier associated with the users, such that the hosting computing system can ensure that the users travel to the same instance of the destination together. If a user does not already have the destination installed, some implementations can allow the user to acquire access rights to the destination, then travel to the same instance of the destination as the other users.
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