Messaging App AR Tutorial Integration via Split-Screen
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current messaging systems lack the ability to effectively integrate augmented reality content with tutorial content, limiting user engagement and interaction in messaging applications.
Innovation Solution
A messaging application that allows users to select augmented reality content items, displaying tutorial content alongside image feeds captured by the device camera, with synchronized augmented reality overlays, using a split-screen interface and providing options for user interaction and media content generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If messaging systems display traditional text-based content, then system simplicity is maintained, but user engagement and interaction are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines traditional messaging functionality with augmented reality content display, merging text-based communication with immersive visual experiences. The messaging application integrates AR content items, tutorial content, and image feeds into a unified interface, allowing users to engage with multiple content types simultaneously without requiring separate applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging application is enhanced to perform multiple functions: displaying traditional messages, presenting augmented reality content, providing tutorial guidance, and enabling media content generation. This multi-functional approach allows a single platform to serve diverse user needs, from simple text communication to complex interactive AR experiences.
2Loss of information
If augmented reality content is displayed without tutorial guidance, then interface simplicity is maintained, but user understanding and effective interaction are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides tutorial content before and during AR content interaction. Users receive step-by-step guidance that prepares them for effective engagement with augmented reality features. The tutorial content is delivered in advance and continues throughout the interaction process, ensuring users understand how to utilize the AR content items effectively.
Solution Approach 2:
Tutorial content acts as an intermediary between the complex AR content and the user. This intermediate layer translates sophisticated augmented reality features into understandable, actionable guidance, bridging the gap between advanced functionality and user comprehension without overwhelming the user with technical complexity.
3Ease of operation
If split-screen interface is used to display tutorial and AR content simultaneously, then user guidance is improved, but screen real estate for media content generation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display interface is segmented into distinct regions: one portion displays tutorial content while another portion presents augmented reality content and media generation tools. This segmentation allows multiple functions to coexist on the screen simultaneously, providing continuous guidance while maintaining adequate space for interactive media creation and AR content manipulation.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, by a device, user input selecting an augmented reality content item for display, the augmented reality content item corresponding to a tutorial with augmented reality content; causing, in response to receiving the user input, a camera of the device to activate to capture an image feed; displaying tutorial content in conjunction with the image feed; and modifying the image feed with augmented reality content that corresponds to the tutorial content.