AR VR Interface for Home Improvement Project Transparency
Solution Overview
Problem
Home improvement projects lack transparency and accountability, with existing communication and interface systems failing to capture, store, and make available relevant information effectively, leading to obscured connections between ideas, products, and project tasks.
Innovation Solution
The Strukshur platform utilizes augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) elements to provide a user-friendly interface for homeowners and professionals, enabling transparent communication and data storage from project ideation to execution, with features like AR/VR imaging for finish selection, bid management, and project tracking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If standardized communication systems are used, then system simplicity is maintained, but transparency and accountability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple communication channels (messaging, file sharing, project management tools, AR/VR interfaces) into a single integrated platform. This consolidation maintains system simplicity from the user perspective while internally providing comprehensive transparency and accountability through unified data capture and tracking across all project aspects.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication platform is designed as a universal system that performs multiple functions: traditional messaging, file exchange, project task management, AR/VR visualization, and automated documentation. This multi-functionality ensures transparency and accountability across diverse project activities without requiring separate specialized systems.
2Loss of information
If standard interface systems are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but connections between ideas, products, and tasks are obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces AR/VR dimensions to the traditional 2D interface, allowing users to visualize project elements in three-dimensional space. This dimensional enhancement reveals connections between ideas, products, and tasks that are obscured in flat interfaces, while AR/VR controllers and gesture recognition maintain ease of operation through natural interaction methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform introduces intelligent intermediaries including AI-powered project assistants, automated connection-mapping algorithms, and contextual recommendation engines. These intermediaries actively reveal and maintain connections between project elements without requiring users to manually trace relationships, preserving ease of operation while preventing information loss.
3Loss of information
If custom project tracking is implemented, then project-specific transparency is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic project templates that automatically adapt to custom project requirements. Users can configure tracking parameters, communication protocols, and documentation requirements specific to each project, while the system dynamically adjusts its complexity to match project needs rather than imposing fixed complex structures on all projects.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform incorporates automated documentation generation, intelligent project setup wizards, and self-configuring tracking systems that reduce the burden of custom project implementation. The system automatically captures project-specific information and configures appropriate tracking mechanisms without requiring extensive manual setup, thereby achieving project transparency without proportionally increasing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
User interfaces, systems, methods, devices, media, and instructions are described for a client/contractor management and communication system with augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) interface elements. In one embodiment, a device receives finish and inspiration information associated with a home improvement project from a client and structures this information into finish pin data with associated project context information and 3D model data. The device uses this information to automatically generate and update a project chart for the project, along with 3D models for various subproject positions within a project chart. This information is then presented to the client and associated contractors as part of a user interface for a client/contractor system. A project chart interface enables access to 3D models in an AR or VR interface to display models of the project and various project data associated with different positions in a project chart.