Artificial Reality Browser Chrome for Consistent Immersive Entry

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional browsers fail to provide both two-dimensional and immersive user experiences efficiently, lacking a consistent mechanism to inform users about available immersive experiences and how to trigger them.

Innovation Solution

An artificial reality browser is configured to display both two-dimensional web content and immersive experiences, featuring a browser chrome component that can be configured via an API call to indicate the availability of immersive experiences and serve as a consistent entry point.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional browsers display web content, then two-dimensional web content can be accessed, but immersive experiences cannot be consistently triggered and users encounter unexpected display artifacts

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to display both 2D and immersive contentVSAvoiduser navigation and triggering immersive experiences

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a browser chrome component as an intermediary element between the web content and the user. This component serves as a consistent interface that mediates the interaction, providing standardized controls and indicators for triggering immersive experiences, thereby resolving the navigation confusion caused by diverse configurations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The browser chrome component is designed to be universal, serving multiple functions: displaying standard web content, indicating when immersive experiences are available, providing consistent trigger mechanisms, and managing transitions between 2D and immersive modes, regardless of the specific immersive experience configuration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If diverse immersive experience configurations are supported, then adaptability to different designs and technologies is improved, but user navigation becomes non-intuitive and display artifacts occur

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesupport for various immersive experience configurationsVSAvoiddisplay consistency and user experience predictability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the browser interface into distinct functional components: a browser chrome component that handles user interaction and indication, and the immersive experience content itself. This segmentation allows the chrome to provide consistent, predictable behavior while the content maintains its diverse configurations, preventing display artifacts

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The browser chrome component applies local quality by providing standardized interaction patterns and visual indicators specifically at the interface level, while allowing the immersive content to maintain its own diverse configurations. This creates predictability where needed (at the interface) while preserving flexibility where required (in the content)

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If immersive experiences are loaded and ready, then user interaction is enabled, but users are not informed about availability and how to trigger the experience

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimmersive experience availability and readinessVSAvoiduser awareness of immersive experience availability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The browser chrome component implements feedback mechanisms that visually indicate when immersive experiences are loaded and ready for interaction. This feedback loop keeps users informed about the current state of immersive content availability and provides clear cues on how to trigger the experience, eliminating information loss

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12346396B2Artificial reality browser configured to trigger an immersive experience

Publication Date: 2025.07.01 META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC

AI summary

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an artificial reality (XR) browser configured to trigger an immersive experience. Implementations display an element at a browser chrome of the XR browser when an immersive experience is loaded. For example, the XR browser can include an application programming interface (API) that supports configuration of a browser chrome element by components of a webpage. The API call can cause the display of the browser chrome element, change a display property for the browser chrome element, or configure the browser chrome element in any other suitable manner. Upon receiving input at the browser chrome element (configured by the API call), the XR browser can transition from displaying a two-dimensional panel view of a webpage supported by loaded web resources (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) pages, graphic images, etc.) to a three-dimensional environment supported by preloaded immersive resources (e.g., three-dimensional models, graphic images, etc.).