Biometric Actuators for Immersive Shared Virtual Gaming Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current shared virtual gaming environments lack the integration of realistic sensory feedback, failing to provide a seamless and immersive experience that combines real-world interactions with virtual environments.
Innovation Solution
Incorporation of biometric actuators and sensors that detect physiological and mental states of players, providing real-time sensory feedback such as tactile, thermal, and audio cues to enhance the virtual gaming experience, allowing for a more immersive and interactive simulation of real-world environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If biometric actuators and sensors are incorporated to provide sensory feedback, then player immersion and realism are improved, but device complexity and system integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the sensory feedback functionality into separate biometric actuators (tactile, thermal, audio) and biometric sensors, each handling specific sensory modalities. This segmentation allows independent optimization and maintenance of each sensor type while collectively achieving comprehensive immersive feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming system integrates multiple types of biometric actuators and sensors that serve universal purposes across different game scenarios. The same actuator types (tactile, thermal, audio) can provide feedback for various game events, and the system adapts these multi-functional components to different gaming contexts.
2Productivity
If real-time biometric feedback is provided based on virtual environment conditions, then player engagement and realism are improved, but processing requirements and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides biometric feedback at periodic intervals triggered by virtual environment conditions and game events, rather than continuously. The processor determines feedback timing based on detected virtual conditions, creating periodic feedback cycles that maintain engagement while reducing overall energy consumption compared to constant feedback delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-determines feedback parameters and thresholds based on virtual environment conditions before actual feedback delivery. By analyzing virtual conditions and prepping feedback responses in advance, the system reduces real-time processing demands and energy consumption during critical feedback moments.
3Reliability
If multiple types of sensory feedback (tactile, thermal, audio) are provided simultaneously, then immersion quality is improved, but device complexity and control difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different sensory feedback types to specific local contexts within the game environment. Each biometric actuator targets specific sensory channels (tactile for physical contact, thermal for temperature, audio for sound) and activates based on locally relevant virtual events, providing high-quality multi-sensory feedback without requiring complex global coordination.
Data Source
AI summary
A processor circuit provides a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) comprising a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices. The processor circuit transmits display data corresponding to the SVE to a first player device worn by a first player, the display data comprising user display data that causes a display device in the first player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the first player device and a virtual location of the first player in the SVE. The processor circuit determines a virtual environment condition in the SVE and, based on the virtual environment condition, operates a a biometric feedback device to provide biometric feedback to the first player.