Social Avatar Closet for Multi-Player Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing avatar modification systems lack a social aspect, making modifications a single-player experience even when multiple users are interacting within the same or different applications, with changes not visible to remote users until confirmed and applied.
Innovation Solution
Integrating a social avatar closet that allows multiple users to interact and modify their avatars in a shared virtual environment, enabling real-time viewing and interaction of modifications across different applications and platforms, with features like item trading, suggestion, and collaboration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If avatar modification is implemented as a single-player experience with offline repository access, then users can freely customize their avatars, but the modifications are not visible to other users until confirmed and applied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the single-player avatar customization experience with multi-player social interaction by merging the offline repository access with online real-time collaboration features, allowing users to simultaneously customize avatars and share modifications with others
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that receives modification data from local users and distributes it to remote users, enabling real-time visibility of avatar changes across the network without requiring all users to be in the same local environment
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users access the same application for avatar modification, then social interaction is enabled, but the modification experience remains sequential rather than simultaneous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the avatar modification system dynamic by allowing real-time updates and changes during the modification process itself, rather than requiring sequential access. Multiple users can simultaneously view and modify avatar parameters, with changes reflected immediately for all participants
Solution Approach 2:
The patent allows users to pre-configure their local repositories with avatar items before entering the social modification environment, enabling them to quickly start collaborative modification without waiting for other users to prepare their resources
3Adaptability or versatility
If users modify avatars in different applications or games, then cross-application versatility is achieved, but there is no shared virtual environment for viewing modifications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal virtual environment (such as a virtual closet or changing room) that can serve multiple applications and games, allowing users from different applications to converge in a single shared space for avatar modification and social interaction
Data Source
AI summary
The techniques disclosed herein integrate a social aspect into avatar modification. Multiple users may access a virtual environment that allows users to modify the user's avatar. The users in the application may be any combination of remote and local players. The users' avatars may be associated with the same application or different applications. The users may interact in the same virtual environment while modifying their respective avatars. Any user in the virtual environment may view modifications that are made to other users' avatars and interact with other users while modifications are made. Thus, the techniques disclosed allow avatar modification to be a multi-player experience.