Patents by Inventor Austen McRAE

Austen McRAE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12277301
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to uniform resource locator (URL) access to assets within an artificial reality universe on both two-dimensional (2D) and artificial reality (XR) interfaces. Implementations can use a uniform URL schema to represent the asset, the URL being semantically meaningful and reflective of the hierarchical structure of the location of the asset within the XR universe. Accessing the URL from a 2D interface can lead the user to a landing page from which the user can choose to continue and visit the world from the 2D interface, or to instead visit the world from an XR interface. When accessing the URL from the XR interface, the user can see prefetched information regarding the destination that is automatically presented to the user in a sensible manner, such as in a rendering of a travel portal, which the user can activate to render the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wenjin Gu, Austen McRae, George Ortiz
  • Publication number: 20240061545
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to uniform resource locator (URL) access to assets within an artificial reality universe on both two-dimensional (2D) and artificial reality (XR) interfaces. Implementations can use a uniform URL schema to represent the asset, the URL being semantically meaningful and reflective of the hierarchical structure of the location of the asset within the XR universe. Accessing the URL from a 2D interface can lead the user to a landing page from which the user can choose to continue and visit the world from the 2D interface, or to instead visit the world from an XR interface. When accessing the URL from the XR interface, the user can see prefetched information regarding the destination that is automatically presented to the user in a sensible manner, such as in a rendering of a travel portal, which the user can activate to render the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Wenjin GU, Austen McRAE, George ORTIZ
  • Publication number: 20230267688
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for generating a virtual world in a virtual universe are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate virtual objects comprising object representations in a virtual world of a virtual universe; generate avatars comprising user representations of themselves in the virtual world; generate spatial containers within the virtual world; and process transactions regarding the virtual objects between the avatars based on evaluations of rights sets associated with the virtual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Mina Maher Shawky Abouseif, Oludare Victor Obasanjo, Michael Philip Arcuri, Rachel Levkovich, Jeffrey Lin, Katherine Ward, Joshua Ryan Williams, Jonathan Larsen Eide, Austen McRae, Philip Woods
  • Publication number: 20220406021
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a mapping communication system that creates a 3D model of a real-world space and places a virtual camera in the 3D model. As the mapping communication system detects changes in the space, it can provide scan updates to keep the 3D model close to a live representation of the space. Further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to traveling a user to an artificial reality (XR) environment using an intent configured XR link. Yet further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to improving audio latency by performing audio processing off-headset for artificial reality (XR) experiences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael James LEBEAU, Björn WANBO, Gregg WYGONIK, Saransh SOLANKI, Sarang BORUDE, Jonathan KANTROWITZ, Alexandra Paige RUBIN, Wenjin GU, Austen McRAE, Anis Ahmed SANKIGIRI KHADER