AR/VR Discomfort Detection Through Smart Home IoT Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing AR/VR devices fail to address user discomfort caused by operational states of IoT devices in the smart home environment, leading to disruptions in user experience due to factors like strong smells, loud noises, temperature changes, and haptic sensations.
Innovation Solution
A wearable AR/VR device equipped with sensors and AI-driven modules detects sensory discomfort, identifies the source IoT device, and provides user interface suggestions to adjust its operational state, allowing users to manage discomfort through gestures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If the user manually monitors and adjusts IoT device settings during AR/VR sessions, then user comfort can be maintained, but the immersion and continuity of the AR/VR experience are broken
Solution Approach 1:
The system proactively monitors IoT device operational states and predicts potential discomfort conditions before they occur. By detecting patterns in IoT device behavior and user physiological responses, the system takes preliminary actions to adjust IoT settings or prepare mitigation strategies, preventing discomfort from developing and eliminating the need for manual intervention during AR/VR sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops by monitoring user physiological data (heart rate, skin conductance, temperature) and IoT device operational states in real-time. This feedback mechanism allows the system to automatically detect discomfort conditions, identify their sources, and adjust IoT device settings dynamically, maintaining both user comfort and AR/VR session continuity without manual intervention.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the system integrates multiple sensors and AI modules to detect and respond to user discomfort, then user comfort management is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The AR/VR device integrates multiple sensors (temperature, humidity, motion, physiological sensors) and AI modules into a unified multi-functional platform. This single device performs both core AR/VR functions and environmental monitoring, discomfort detection, and IoT device management, eliminating the need for separate specialized devices and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines sensor data processing, AI-based discomfort detection, IoT device monitoring, and automatic control functions into an integrated architecture. By merging these previously separate functions into a unified system with shared processing resources and communication protocols, the patent reduces complexity while maintaining comprehensive discomfort management capabilities.
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AI summary
A method of a device supporting augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR), includes: detecting an occurrence of at least one sensory discomfort to a user when the user uses the device supporting the AR or the VR; determining a source internet-of-thing (IoT) device triggering the occurrence of the at least one sensory discomfort to the user by an operational state of the source IoT device; providing at least one suggestion to the user though a user interface of the device; and adjusting, based on a response of the user to the provided at least one suggestion, the operational state of the source IoT device.