Shared Space Construction for Remote AR/VR Presence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for remote collaboration and shared experiences lack the ability to provide a novel viewing experience to users, particularly in enhancing the sense of presence and interaction between users in different physical spaces.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires space information from a first user's environment, constructs a shared space with a second user, and determines the position of the second user within this shared space, using head-mounted displays and sensors to create immersive augmented and virtual reality experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If users are located in remote places spaced away from each other, then the ability to perform operations in real-time is improved, but the sense of presence and interaction between users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a shared space as an intermediary virtual environment that mediates between physically separated users. This shared space serves as a common ground where users from different physical locations can interact as if they were present together, resolving the contradiction by providing a virtual intermediary that maintains real-time operation capability while restoring the sense of presence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from physical spatial arrangement to virtual spatial arrangement by constructing a shared space dimension. Users physically located in remote places are mapped to corresponding positions within this virtual shared space, allowing them to interact with the same spatial context despite physical separation, thus maintaining both real-time operation and sense of presence.
2Ease of operation
If a shared space is constructed to reflect physical object positions, then the viewing experience is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The shared space construction serves multiple functions simultaneously: it reflects physical object positions, determines user positions, and provides the basis for rendering virtual images. By making the shared space a multi-functional component that handles spatial mapping, user positioning, and visual rendering, the patent improves viewing experience while managing system complexity through functional integration.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires space information indicative of a position of a physical object in a first space around a first user, a space construction unit that constructs, on a basis of the space information, a shared space in which movements of the first user and a second user who exists in a second space different from the first space are reflected, and a determination unit that determines a position of the second user in the shared space.