Audio-Guided Virtual Reality Tour System for Real Estate
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional real estate sales rely on inefficient paper-based advertising methods, and online approaches lack immersive experiences, requiring physical visits to gain detailed knowledge of properties.
Innovation Solution
An audio-guided virtual reality (VR) tour system that displays a 3D VR environment and plays an audio guide, allowing users to interactively explore properties by adjusting the view based on user inputs while maintaining a fixed point position, enhancing user experience and property exploration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional paper-based advertising methods are used for real estate sales, then information can be distributed to customers, but the efficiency is low and the customer base is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical real estate property through 3D scanning and modeling technologies. This virtual replica can be distributed digitally to unlimited customers simultaneously, eliminating the need for physical pamphlets and enabling remote viewing without sacrificing any detail of the actual property.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from 2D photos and text descriptions to a full 3D immersive virtual environment. This dimensional enhancement allows customers to explore properties from all angles and perspectives remotely, providing comprehensive information that was previously only accessible through physical visits.
2Loss of time
If online real estate advertisements with photos and text descriptions are used, then timeliness is improved and larger audience is reached, but detailed knowledge of specific property features cannot be gained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical real estate property through 3D scanning and modeling technologies. This virtual replica can be distributed digitally to unlimited customers simultaneously, eliminating the need for physical pamphlets and enabling remote viewing without sacrificing any detail of the actual property.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from 2D photos and text descriptions to a full 3D immersive virtual environment. This dimensional enhancement allows customers to explore properties from all angles and perspectives remotely, providing comprehensive information that was previously only accessible through physical visits.
3Ease of operation
If textual descriptions are provided in the form of a laundry list, then information is organized, but context to specific features of the underlying real estate property is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from 2D photos and text descriptions to a full 3D immersive virtual environment. This dimensional enhancement allows customers to explore properties from all angles and perspectives remotely, providing comprehensive information that was previously only accessible through physical visits.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an audio guide as an intermediary element that provides contextual narration about specific property features. The audio guide accompanies the visual tour, explaining architectural details, historical significance, and unique characteristics of different areas, thereby adding meaningful context to the visual experience.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for providing an audio-guided in-door virtual reality (VR) tour. An exemplary system may include a communication interface configured to receive input from a user and to output media contents, a memory storing computer-readable instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the communication interface and the memory. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations may include displaying a view of a 3D VR environment and playing an audio guide associated with the view. The operations may also include detecting, during the playing of the audio guide, a target operation input by the user to alter the view. In response to the detection of the target operation, the operations may include adjusting, based on the detected target operation, the view with respect to a fixed point position within the 3D VR environment.