Adaptive User Space for Simulated Reality Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for mapping simulated reality environments to real-world settings are inflexible and do not adapt to varying environments, limiting user safety and the full utilization of simulated reality experiences across different physical spaces.
Innovation Solution
A simulated reality display system that adjusts user spaces based on real-world layouts, allowing users to safely navigate and interact with simulated environments by positioning and scaling assets relative to the user's perspective, using a combination of sensors and data processing to create an adaptive user space that conforms to physical features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed user spaces are used for all SR experiences, then device setup is simplified, but adaptability to different real-world environments is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic user spaces that automatically adjust their boundaries and configuration based on real-time sensor data from the physical environment. The system transitions from static, pre-defined user spaces to dynamic ones that adapt to detected physical features, obstacles, and spatial characteristics, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity through automated environmental mapping.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-configuration by automatically scanning the physical environment using sensors, detecting spatial boundaries and features, and adjusting user space parameters without requiring manual setup or user intervention. This self-service approach enables environmental adaptability while minimizing the complexity burden on the user.
2Reliability
If generic user spaces are provided for all devices, then implementation is easier, but user safety in specific environments is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by configuring user space parameters specifically tailored to each detected environmental context. Instead of using uniform safety boundaries, the system adjusts user space dimensions, boundaries, and constraints based on local physical features detected in each specific environment, thereby enhancing safety without requiring complex manual configuration for each scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary environmental scanning and user space configuration automatically before the user begins their SR experience. By pre-adapting the user space to the detected physical environment in advance, the system ensures safety requirements are met while maintaining ease of implementation through automated preparation.
3Measurement precision
If manual configuration of user spaces is used, then precision in specific environments is improved, but setup time and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical configuration processes with automated sensor-based environmental mapping. The system uses sensors to automatically detect and map physical features, boundaries, and spatial characteristics, substituting the time-consuming manual measurement and configuration process with rapid automated detection that achieves comparable or superior precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary automated mapping process between the physical environment and the user space configuration. This intermediary layer uses sensor data to automatically translate physical spatial characteristics into appropriate user space parameters, eliminating the need for direct manual configuration while maintaining high precision through algorithmic environmental analysis.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a simulated reality (SR) display system with an adjustable perspective. A simulated reality display system with an adaptable user space can receive a real world layout corresponding to a physical space in which the SR environment will be displayed to the user. Using the real world layout, a default user space can be adapted to conform to one or more aspects of the physical space forming an adjusted user space. Assets of an SR layer can be repositioned relative to the adjusted user space, with the SR layer defining a layout of a plurality of assets in the SR environment. The SR environment can be displayed on the display device, in accordance with the SR layer, allowing the user to safely move around the user space to explore the SR environment without undesirable interactions with the one or more aspects of the physical space.