Metaverse Avatar Call Mediation via Audio Space Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing metaverse environments lack efficient methods for facilitating calls between user terminals while providing a seamless and interactive virtual experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that generate avatars based on user terminal profile information, provide a map space for avatars to travel, and mediate calls among avatars by determining entry into specific audio spaces within the map, ultimately completing matching between user terminals when attraction signs are exchanged.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a metaverse environment is provided without structured audio space mediation, then user freedom of movement is maintained, but call functionality between user terminals cannot be effectively enabled
Solution Approach 1:
The map space is segmented into multiple audio spaces with different entry conditions. Each audio space functions as an independent call mediation zone, allowing calls to be enabled selectively in specific areas rather than requiring system-wide complex mediation mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
Audio spaces act as intermediary structures that mediate call functionality between user terminals. The server mediates calls based on whether avatars have entered specific audio spaces, providing a structured intermediate layer that enables reliable call functionality without requiring direct complex peer-to-peer coordination.
2Reliability
If entry conditions are strictly enforced for audio spaces, then call quality and user safety are improved, but user accessibility and freedom are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Entry conditions for audio spaces are configured dynamically based on avatar attributes such as age and gender. The system adaptively determines which avatars can enter which audio spaces, allowing flexible access control that maintains safety and quality standards while accommodating diverse user characteristics and needs.
3Reliability
If matching between user terminals is delayed until after entry confirmation, then call reliability is ensured, but matching speed and user experience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The server determines audio space entry status in advance before completing the matching process. By pre-assessing whether avatars meet the entry conditions for audio spaces, the system prepares call pathways beforehand, ensuring reliability while reducing the time required for actual matching and call initiation.
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AI summary
The operating method of a server for providing a metaverse in which a call between user terminals may be performed may include: generating a first avatar based on profile information of a first user terminal and a second avatar based on profile information of a second user terminal; providing a map space in which the first avatar and the second avatar are able to travel; mediating a call between the first user terminal and the second user terminal based on whether a plurality of avatars including the first avatar and the second avatar have entered a first audio space included in the map space; and completing matching between the first user terminal and the second user terminal when a first sign of attraction to the second avatar is transmitted from the first user terminal and a sign of attraction to the first avatar is transmitted from the second user terminal.