AR Headset Teleport via Visual Target Markers
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Solution Overview
Problem
In immersive virtual reality and augmented reality systems, physical space boundaries disrupt the user's experience of a continuous virtual world environment, limiting movement and interaction due to the system's inability to effectively translate real-world physical constraints into virtual space.
Innovation Solution
A head-mounted audio visual device displays a visual target marker in the virtual space indicating a target location in the physical space, allowing users to move towards it and then teleport to a corresponding location in the virtual space, thereby overcoming physical boundaries and enhancing interaction and movement within the virtual environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users move freely in physical space to explore virtual environment, then user interaction and movement in virtual space is enhanced, but physical boundaries limit the continuous virtual world experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces visual target markers as intermediary elements that mediate between physical space and virtual space. These markers are displayed in the physical environment and guide users to specific locations, allowing the system to translate physical movement into meaningful virtual navigation while respecting physical boundaries.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces direct physical movement through boundaries with a visual guidance system. Instead of allowing free movement that would hit physical walls, the system uses displayed target markers to guide users to appropriate locations, substituting mechanical navigation with visual information processing.
2Ease of operation
If visual target markers are displayed to guide user movement, then user navigation and interaction is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The head-mounted display device performs multiple functions: it displays the virtual environment, shows visual target markers for navigation, and provides spatial awareness. By consolidating these functions in a single device, the system avoids the complexity of multiple separate systems while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
A system and method of operating an audio visual system generating an immersive virtual experience may include generating, by a head-mounted audio visual device of an augmented reality system, a virtual object of interest while physically moving within a physical space; receiving, by the head-mounted audio visual device, a teleport control signal; and moving, in response to the teleport control signal, the virtual object of interest to a location that corresponds to a target location in the physical space.