Location-Based Skins for Mixed Reality Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a disconnect between the digital presence and the ambiance of physical locations, as current technologies fail to effectively integrate virtual and real-world experiences, leading to a gap between the digital and physical environments.
Innovation Solution
A location-based skin system using mixed reality technology, where a see-through, mixed reality display device system transmits location identifier data to a skin providing computer system, receives and authenticates a skin associated with the location, and displays it according to skin display parameters and user settings, allowing digital information to enhance the physical space with audio and visual effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If digital presence is created separately from physical location, then digital information can be stored and transmitted, but the connection between digital and physical worlds remains disconnected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces location-based skins as an intermediary layer that mediates between digital information and physical spaces. The skin system acts as a mediator that receives digital content, associates it with specific physical locations through location identifier data, and presents it to users through mixed reality displays, thereby bridging the disconnect between digital and physical worlds without requiring direct integration of all systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the integration function into separate modular components: location detection modules, skin content modules, authentication modules, and display modules. This segmentation allows each component to be developed and optimized independently while working together to solve the connection problem, reducing overall system complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If location-based skins are displayed to enhance ambiance, then the connection between digital and physical is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts the skin display based on user settings and location context. The authentication and display parameters are adjusted in real-time based on user preferences and environmental conditions, allowing the system to provide location-specific experiences while managing complexity through dynamic rather than static configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication and skin selection before actual display. By pre-authenticating skins and pre-configuring display parameters based on location identifier data, the system reduces the complexity of real-time decision-making during the actual ambiance enhancement phase
3Reliability
If security credentials are verified for each skin, then system security is improved, but the processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Security credentials are verified in advance during the skin retrieval phase before the actual display occurs. By performing authentication as a preliminary action when obtaining the skin data, the system ensures security without delaying the final display operation, as the authentication is already complete by the time rendering occurs
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AI summary
The technology provides embodiments for providing a location-based skin for a see-through, mixed reality display device system. In many embodiments, a location-based skin includes a virtual object viewable by a see-through, mixed reality display device system which has been detected in a specific location. Some location-based skins implement an ambient effect. The see-through, mixed reality display device system is detected to be present in a location and receives and displays a skin while in the location in accordance with user settings. User data may be uploaded and displayed in a skin in accordance with user settings. A location may be a physical space at a fixed position and may also be a space defined relative to a position of a real object, for example, another see-through, mixed reality display device system. Furthermore, a location may be a location within another location.