Private Gesture Communication Channels in Multiplayer Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multiplayer online gaming systems lack effective mechanisms for facilitating private communication between players without revealing strategic information to other participants, hindering seamless collaboration and teamwork.
Innovation Solution
The system captures real-world gestures, such as sign language, and converts them into virtual gestures that are only visible to intended recipients, creating private communication channels within a video game environment, ensuring that these gestures are hidden from other players.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If private communication channels are created between players, then information security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication system is segmented into public channels and private channels. When a player performs a gesture, a private communication channel is created between that player and the target player, separate from the public game chat. This segmentation allows strategic information to be transmitted privately while maintaining the overall game communication structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that manages private communication channels. When the server detects a gesture directed at another player, it automatically creates a private channel between them and routes communications accordingly. This intermediary approach handles the complexity of channel management centrally rather than requiring complex client-side implementation.
2Loss of information
If gestures are hidden from other players, then information security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The visibility of gestures has local quality - gestures are visible to specific players based on the private channel context. Within a private channel, the gesture and its meaning are fully visible to the communicating players, while remaining hidden from other players. This local visibility control maintains ease of operation for the communicating parties while ensuring information security.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of making all gestures public and requiring players to manually hide sensitive ones, the system inverts the approach by making gestures private by default when initiated through specific gestures, and only visible to intended recipients. This inversion simplifies the operation for players who want private communication while maintaining security.
3Adaptability or versatility
If real-world gestures are converted to virtual gestures, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system captures real-world gestures using camera imaging and creates virtual representations of these gestures in the game environment. The gesture recognition system copies the essential characteristics of real-world gestures and translates them into virtual gesture commands that the game can interpret, enabling natural interaction without requiring specialized controllers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces traditional mechanical input devices (controllers, keyboards) with gesture-based input captured through imaging sensors. This substitution allows players to communicate using natural hand gestures and body movements, increasing adaptability and accessibility while the server handles the complexity of gesture recognition and translation.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for facilitating private communication between users are described. One of the methods includes determining that a gesture directed towards one or more users from a plurality of users is made by a user, generating one or more private communication channels between the user and the one or more users in response to determining that the gesture is directed towards the one or more users, and determining that one or more additional gestures indicated in the one or more private communication channels are made. The one or more additional gestures are associated with one or more meanings, and the one or more meanings are received via the one or more private communication channels. The method includes hiding the one or more additional gestures from remaining ones of the plurality of users.