User-Defined Virtual Space Geolocation Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems that integrate real-world locations into virtual spaces lack the ability to allow users to customize their experiences by correlating real-world geolocations with virtual space activities and locations, limiting user engagement and enjoyment.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes processors to execute modules for user-defined virtual spaces, enabling users to correlate real-world geolocations with virtual space locations and activities, with spatial requirements such as geofences, geometry patterns, and location types, ensuring that user-selected correlations meet specified criteria before recording and executing actions or activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are enabled to customize their experiences by selecting real world locations for virtual space activities, then user experience and engagement are improved, but system complexity increases due to space-geolocation correlation management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a space-geolocation correlation module as an intermediary component that manages the mapping between real-world geolocations and virtual space locations. This module acts as a mediator between the user's location data and the virtual space system, handling the complexity of correlation management internally while presenting a simple interface to users for customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual copy of real-world geolocations within the virtual space environment. By correlating real-world GPS coordinates with virtual space locations, the system replicates the spatial relationships of the physical world in the virtual environment, allowing users to interact with virtual objects at locations that mirror their real-world positions without requiring users to understand the underlying complex mapping mechanisms.
2Measurement precision
If spatial requirements such as geofences and geometry patterns are enforced for geolocation correlations, then measurement precision and reliability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary verification of spatial requirements during the space-geolocation correlation setup phase. Before finalizing a correlation between a real-world location and a virtual space location, the system checks whether the location satisfies predefined spatial constraints such as geofence boundaries, geometry patterns, and minimum distance requirements. This preliminary action ensures accuracy while containing complexity within the verification routine rather than throughout the entire system operation.
3Ease of operation
If real world locations are used to anchor virtual space navigation, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases due to mapping requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms real-world geolocation data (latitude, longitude, altitude) into virtual space coordinates through parameter transformation. By changing the coordinate system and spatial parameters during the correlation process, the system maintains the navigational benefits of real-world anchoring while adapting the data to fit virtual space requirements, minimizing information loss through systematic parameter mapping rather than simple one-to-one correspondence.
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AI summary
A system and method for facilitating a user defined virtual space is disclosed. One or more virtual space locations and/or activities may be correlated with user specified geolocations. In some implementations, the user specified geolocations may be verified against one or more spatial requirements prior to recording the user selected space-geolocation correlations. A user request to initiate an action or activity in the virtual space may be received. Prior to executing the requested action or activity in the virtual space, the user current geolocation may be verified against that specified in a space-geolocation correlation corresponding to a virtual space location or activity indicated in the user request.