AR Viewfinder Navigation With Unified Scrollable Content Options
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems require users to navigate through multiple pages of information to find and apply augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) experiences to content items, which is time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially on mobile devices, reducing efficiency and appeal.
Innovation Solution
A single scrollable region in a messaging application GUI combines previously captured content items and AR/VR experiences, allowing users to select and apply modifications directly from a live video feed without navigating through multiple pages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users navigate through multiple pages of information to find and apply AR/VR experiences to content items, then users can access a comprehensive set of options, but the process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines previously captured content items and AR/VR experiences into a single scrollable region within the messaging application interface. This merging eliminates the need for users to navigate through multiple separate pages or menus, allowing them to access both content and AR/VR options in one unified view, thereby reducing time and resource consumption while maintaining comprehensive access to all features
Solution Approach 2:
The single scrollable region serves multiple functions simultaneously: displaying previously captured content items, presenting AR/VR experience options, and enabling direct selection and application of modifications. This multi-functional design consolidates what would traditionally require separate navigation paths into one universal interface element
2Ease of operation
If users navigate through multiple pages of information, then complete control over content modification is available, but device resources and battery power are consumed excessively
Solution Approach 1:
By merging content display and AR/VR modification options into a single scrollable region, the patent reduces the number of page transitions and interface navigations required. This consolidation minimizes the processing overhead and resource consumption associated with loading and rendering multiple separate pages, thereby reducing device resource usage and battery power consumption while preserving full control over content modification
3Productivity
If a single scrollable region combines content items and AR experiences, then navigation efficiency is improved, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously captured content items and AR/VR experiences into a single scrollable region, which improves navigation efficiency by eliminating the need to switch between multiple pages or menus. Although this consolidation increases interface complexity, the unified structure provides a more streamlined user experience that accelerates content sharing by allowing users to access and modify content in one continuous view
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for navigating images and AR experiences. The system and method perform operations comprising displaying, by a messaging application in a viewfinder, a live video feed received from a camera of a client device. The operations comprise presenting, by the messaging application, in a scrollable region on top of the live video feed being displayed in the viewfinder, a first plurality of options associated with previously captured content items and a second plurality of options associated with augmented reality (AR) experiences. The operations comprise receiving input associated with scrolling the scrollable region and, in response to receiving the input, scrolling the first plurality of options together with the second plurality of options.