Augmented Reality Platform for Leasing Mapped Virtual Subdivisions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality social media platforms lack the ability to integrate real-world and virtual environments seamlessly, limiting user interaction and engagement, and do not provide efficient methods for leasing and managing virtual subdivisions within these environments.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality social media platform that allows users to lease virtual subdivisions corresponding to real-world areas, providing interactive user interfaces that blend real-world and digital elements, utilizing virtual mappings, and enabling features like multi-layer visual displays, user guidance, and customizable virtual objects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing augmented reality social media platforms are used, then basic AR display functionality is provided, but seamless integration of real-world and virtual environments is lacking, limiting user interaction and engagement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges real-world and virtual environments by overlaying virtual indicators, advertisements, and interactive elements directly onto the augmented reality display of the camera feed. This integration allows users to interact with virtual objects in the context of their real-world surroundings, seamlessly combining both environments into a unified user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that captures images from the camera, processes them to detect real-world objects and locations, and then overlays appropriate virtual elements. This intermediary layer enables seamless integration by translating between real-world visual data and virtual AR content, bridging the gap between physical and digital environments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If virtual subdivisions are leased to users, then platform utility and user experience are enhanced, but system complexity for managing virtual leaseholds increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the real-world viewable area into multiple virtual subdivisions, each of which can be independently leased to different users. This segmentation allows the system to manage virtual leaseholds in discrete units, making the complexity of managing multiple users and their respective virtual spaces more tractable through modular organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies or representations of real-world spaces as virtual subdivisions. These virtual subdivisions are digital replicas that can be leased and managed independently, allowing the platform to provide utility for multiple users without requiring physical division of real-world spaces, thereby reducing system complexity.
3Ease of operation
If multiple virtual indicators are displayed in augmented reality, then user engagement increases, but difficulty of detecting and measuring relevant information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making virtual indicators visually distinct and contextually relevant to their specific locations in the augmented reality display. Each virtual indicator is designed with unique visual characteristics and is positioned according to its corresponding real-world location, making it easier for users to detect and differentiate between multiple indicators despite the increased information density.
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AI summary
Augmented reality social media platforms and methods of managing the same in which a real-world defined area is virtually mapped to include a plurality of leasable virtual subdivisions each corresponding to a real-world subdivision of the real-world defined area. A platform may assign a virtual leasehold corresponding to a virtual subdivision of a plurality of leasable virtual subdivisions to a user of the platform. In one aspect the ability to assign a virtual leasehold to a user is based on the user's affiliation or non-affiliation with a real-world organization controlling the corresponding real-world defined area. In another aspect a virtual leasehold may be reassigned to a different virtual subdivision and/or a real-world offering associated with a virtual leasehold may be reallocated to a different virtual leasehold.