Patent ID: 11954242
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are configured to be executed by one or more processors of a computer system, wherein the computer system is in communication with one or more input devices, a first display generation component and a first audio output component, and wherein the one or more programs include instructions for performing operations including:
presenting first computer-generated content in a computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein the computer-generated three-dimensional environment reduces a respective user's perception of a respective physical environment surrounding the respective user while the respective user is in a position to perceive the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment;
while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, detecting first movement of a first user that is in a position to perceive the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein the first movement of the first user is in a first physical environment of the first user; and
in response to detecting the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user:
in accordance with a determination that the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user changes a spatial relationship between the first user and a second user in the first physical environment of the first user from a first spatial relationship to a second spatial relationship and a determination that the change in spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship meets first criteria, changing one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment, wherein changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content while presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment includes one or more of:
reducing visual prominence of at least a first portion of first computer-generated visual content, that is part of the first computer-generated content, to reveal a respective representation of the second user in a first region of a field of view provided via the first display generation component that was previously occupied by the at least the first portion of the first computer-generated visual content; and
reducing audio prominence of first computer-generated audio content, that is part of the first computer-generated content, relative to sound from the first physical environment of the first user; and

in accordance with the determination that the first movement of the first user in the first physical environment of the first user changes the spatial relationship between the first user and the second user in the first physical environment of the first user from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship and a determination that the change in spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship does not meet the first criteria, presenting the first computer-generated content in the computer-generated three-dimensional environment without changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content.