VR headsets like Quest were primarily aimed at gamers forever and a day. Then came the Apple Vision Pro Spatial computer wherein Apple introduced being able to work with a Mac and presenting multiple large virtual displays, working with lifelike avatars for FaceTime calling, watching movies with room size displays and being a work tool for Surgeons and more. In late December 2024, Meta launched the ability to run Windows 11 users to run MS Office in multiple virtual windows as demonstrated below.

In case you didn't know, the Samsung, Google and Qualcomm Spatial Computing alliance are working on both XR Glasses and headsets. Patents from Google and Samsung have been filed for possible future features for these devices. Last week a European Samsung patent was published titled in-part "Managing Plurality of Windows of Virtual Screen in a Virtual Reality Space."

Samsung states that according to one embodiment of their patent filing, the instructions, when executed individually or collectively by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to control the display to display a virtual screen in the virtual reality space.

According to an embodiment, when the instructions are individually or collectively executed by the at least one processor, the instructions may cause the electronic device to execute a plurality of windows of at least one application and select a first window from among the plurality of windows based on the user context information.

According to an embodiment, when the instructions are individually or collectively executed by the at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to control the display such that the electronic device arranges and displays the selected first window on a designated area on the virtual screen based on an arrangement condition set by using user context information, and arranges and displays other windows among the plurality of windows on the remaining area of the virtual screen without overlapping with respect to the first window.

Samsung's patent FIGS 2 and 3 below simply illustrates that their invention relates to both smartglasses and an XR Headset; In Samsung's patent FIG. 7, when displaying the virtual screen #520, the processor May change (or adjust) at least one of the size, distance, or type of the virtual screen. According to an embodiment, the processor May directly adjust (e.g. expand or reduce) the size of the virtual screen based on a portion (e.g. a corner) of the virtual screen. Further the processor may adjust the size of the virtual screen by selecting one of specified magnifications (e.g. 1.5X AY, 2.0X AY, and 3.0X AY) through the UI.

Referring to FIG. 8 above, according to an embodiment, the processor may display one or more windows (#'s 531, 532, and 533) of an application executed based on the horizontal width of the virtual screen #520 on the virtual screen #520 based on the user context information. Here, the user context information may include at least one of gaze information of a user, distance information with a virtual screen, user motion information, user input information (e.g. voice, text, and/or gesture input), frequently used pattern information (e.g. a window arrangement pattern or an arrangement pattern of a virtual screen), or information of an external electronic device (e.g. an external electronic device connected to an electronic device) used by a user.

For full details, review Samsung's patent WO2025037937 published on February 20, 2025. Patently Mobile/Apple was first to discover this patent. 

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