Virtual-Real Product Customization Bridge
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual reality systems do not allow users to customize products in a virtual space and acquire corresponding customized products in the real world, limiting user interaction and product ownership across virtual and real environments.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes multiple apparatuses with processors and memory, enabling users to customize virtual products through avatars, generate customization data, and execute processes for providing customized products both in a virtual space and in the real world, using a network connection between VR servers, control apparatuses, and EC servers for seamless transaction and delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users can customize products in virtual space, then user interaction and engagement are improved, but system complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the product in the virtual space that mirrors the real-world product. Customizations made to the virtual product object are stored as data and can be transferred back to the real world, enabling customization without duplicating entire product systems across both worlds.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a customization information database as an intermediary between the virtual space and real world. This mediator stores and manages customization data, allowing seamless transfer of customization information between virtual product objects and real products without direct complex interaction between the two systems.
2Stability of the object's composition
If customization data is stored and transferred between virtual and real worlds, then product ownership continuity is improved, but data management and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes a customization information database and defines standardized data structures for storing customization information before any customization occurs. This preliminary setup enables smooth data transfer and ownership continuity without ad-hoc data management challenges.
Solution Approach 2:
The customization information database serves multiple functions: storing virtual product customizations, managing real-world product specifications, and facilitating transfer between virtual and real systems. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate data management systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple processes are provided for virtual and real world product acquisition, then user choice and service flexibility are improved, but system operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the virtual product provision process and real-world product provision process into a unified system architecture. Both processes share common components including the customization information database, product object management, and user account systems, reducing operational complexity despite offering multiple acquisition paths.
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AI summary
An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each including at least one memory and at least one processor that executes one or more instructions stored in the at least one memory. The information processing system performs the following, in a case that customization of an object related to a product is performed according to a movement in a virtual space by an avatar corresponding to a user, generates first customization information for specifying content of the customization, and selects and executes according to operation by the user, at least one of a first process that provides the customized object based on the first customization information to the avatar in the virtual space, and a second process that allows the user to acquire in a real world the product corresponding to the customization.