3D Collaborative Content System with Linked Spatial Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaborative content systems, such as online encyclopedias and virtual environments, are limited by their 2-dimensional capabilities, making it difficult to accurately represent complex objects and their spatial relationships, which hinders effective collaboration and content maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating and maintaining collaborative content in a 3-dimensional space, allowing multiple users to create and modify content with linked spatial and text information, enabling dynamic representations of objects and their relationships, and facilitating interaction in virtual reality environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If 2-dimensional content tools (markup languages) are used for collaborative content, then ease of operation is maintained, but the ability to represent complex objects and spatial relationships deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from 2-dimensional markup language content to 3-dimensional virtual environment content. Users can create and manipulate three-dimensional representations of complex objects, spatial relationships, and technical data within a virtual world, enabling accurate conveyance of topography, assembly relationships, and diagnostic information that cannot be effectively represented in 2-D formats.
2Ease of operation
If existing virtual environments are used for user interaction, then ease of operation is improved, but the capability to display and maintain linked content deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the content creation and maintenance capabilities of collaborative documentation systems with the interactive user experience of virtual environments. The system integrates text information, spatial image information, and two-way links between them directly within the 3-D virtual space, allowing content to be both displayed and maintained collaboratively without requiring separate import windows or disconnected tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual environment is enhanced to serve multiple functions: it acts as both an interactive collaboration space and a content management system. Users can create, modify, and maintain collaborative content (text, images, links) directly within the virtual world, eliminating the need for separate content management tools and enabling the virtual environment to function as a universal platform for both interaction and content maintenance.
3Device complexity
If 2-dimensional images and animations are used to represent complex objects, then device complexity is reduced, but measurement precision and spatial relationship accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs 3-dimensional representations within a virtual environment to accurately depict complex objects and their spatial relationships. This enables precise representation of topography, component assembly relationships, and diagnostic information without requiring simplified 2-D approximations, thereby maintaining measurement precision while using virtual rather than physical models.
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AI summary
Embodiments of a system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for collaboratively generating content from multiple users is described. This system may allow multiple users to create and maintain content that includes a complicated object, including linked spatial and text information, which can include dynamic spatial relationships between components in the complicated object. In particular, the system may receive one or more modifications to content associated with the complicated object from one or more users, and may provide signals to display the modified complicated object in a 3-d space or virtual environment on a display based at least in part on the cumulative modifications.