Spatial AR Media Guidance for Cross-Device Content Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in keeping track of media content of interest across multiple devices and often miss notifications due to forgetfulness or lack of interaction with media devices, leading to missed opportunities in consuming relevant media.
Innovation Solution
A supplemental viewing device, such as augmented or virtual reality glasses, identifies media consumption devices in a user's field of view and provides visual indications of available media assets of interest, using image recognition and metadata retrieval to highlight relevant content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users interact with multiple media devices to check available content, then users can determine what media is available, but users lose time and may miss content due to forgetfulness or lack of interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables media content to effectively notify users automatically through the augmented reality device, eliminating the need for users to manually check each media device. The system self-monitors content availability and delivers notifications, reversing the traditional user-initiated checking process and ensuring reliable content consumption without time loss.
2Loss of information
If users continuously monitor multiple media devices for content availability, then users can stay informed about available media, but the complexity of tracking multiple devices increases
Solution Approach 1:
The augmented reality device serves as an intermediary between multiple media devices and the user. Instead of directly monitoring each media device, the system uses the AR device as a central hub that receives content availability information from various media devices and presents it to the user in a unified, simplified interface, reducing the complexity of tracking multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The augmented reality device performs multiple functions: it displays content availability information, provides directional guidance to media devices, and delivers notifications. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate tools or interfaces, simplifying the user's interaction with the media ecosystem.
3Reliability
If users rely on traditional media device notifications, then users can be alerted to available content, but users may miss notifications if they are not interacting with the media device
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions notifications from the traditional two-dimensional screen interface to a three-dimensional spatial experience through the augmented reality device. Notifications are delivered in the user's visual field with spatial context, allowing users to perceive content availability information naturally without requiring direct interaction with media device screens, thereby improving notification reliability while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are described herein for providing streamlined access to media assets of interest to a user. The method includes determining that a supplemental viewing device, through which a user views a field of view, is directed at a first field of view. The method further involves detecting that the supplemental viewing device is now directed at a second field of view, and determining that a media consumption device is within the second field of view. A first media asset of interest to the user that is available for consumption via the media consumption device is identified, and the supplemental viewing device generates a visual indication in the second field of view. The visual indication indicates that the first media asset is available for consumption via the media consumption device, and the visual indication tracks a location of the media consumption device in the second field of view.