Nested Mixed-Reality Vehicle With Synchronized Voyage Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Leisure travelers often desire to experience multiple types of voyages during a single journey, but existing systems require separate purchases and are financially out of reach for most, limiting the integration of mixed reality experiences.
Innovation Solution
A nested mixed reality vehicle is created with a primary vehicle containing a secondary vehicle, featuring display panels showing pre-recorded video imagery of a third vehicle, haptic feedback, synchronized lighting, and audio playback to simulate a different voyage within the primary vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate voyages are purchased to experience different vehicle types and locations, then the diversity of travel experiences is improved, but the cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a secondary vehicle (train car) nested within the primary vehicle (cruise ship). This nested configuration allows passengers to experience two different vehicle types simultaneously - the ship voyage and the train journey - without requiring separate purchases. The secondary vehicle is physically contained within the primary vehicle's interior compartment, creating a nested structure that delivers multiple travel experiences in one journey.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses display panels showing pre-recorded video imagery of a third vehicle's outdoor environment to simulate an additional voyage experience. This visual copying technique creates the illusion that passengers are traveling in a third vehicle type, when in reality they are experiencing the simulated journey through video displays within the nested secondary vehicle. This allows experience of a third vehicle type without the cost of purchasing a separate voyage.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate voyages are purchased to experience different locations and vehicle types, then the variety of travel experiences is improved, but the complexity of travel arrangements increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple travel experiences into a single integrated voyage. The secondary vehicle is physically nested within the primary vehicle, and both voyages occur simultaneously during the same travel period. Passengers experience the ship's journey while simultaneously experiencing the train's journey through the nested vehicle, eliminating the need for separate travel arrangements and simplifying logistics.
Solution Approach 2:
The nested configuration of the secondary vehicle within the primary vehicle's interior compartment allows multiple voyages to occur in the same physical space and time. This nesting eliminates the need for passengers to disembark, repack, or make separate travel arrangements, thereby reducing the complexity of travel arrangements while maintaining variety of experiences.
3Reliability
If display panels are installed to show video imagery of outdoor environments, then the realism of the simulated voyage is improved, but the visual distinction between display and actual windows decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different visual characteristics to different regions of the interior compartment. Display panels showing video imagery are framed with window frames that differ in appearance from actual windows. This local differentiation allows the display panels to blend visually with the window structure, enhancing the illusion that passengers are viewing the real outdoor environment through windows, thereby improving realism while maintaining visual integration.
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AI summary
A nested mixed reality vehicle includes a primary vehicle with an interior compartment adapted to propel onboard passengers from a geographic port of departure to a geographic port of destination, a secondary vehicle defining a cabin space and disposed within the interior compartment, a set of passenger seating fixtures disposed within the cabin space, a display panel fixed to an interior surface of the interior compartment adjacent to the set of passenger seating fixtures and framed at a perimeter of the display panel with a window frame so as to render an appearance of the display panel as a window and a host computing platform with at least one processor and memory and coupled to the display panel. The processor presents pre-produced video imagery in the display of an outdoor environment of an exterior of the secondary vehicle simulating a view from a third vehicle traversing the outdoor environment.