Virtual User Markers for Spatial Communication in Digital Realities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications methods in digital realities, such as augmented and virtual reality, diminish the quality of user interactions and make it difficult to locate and communicate with others in real-time, especially in crowded or unfamiliar environments.
Innovation Solution
A server-based system generates a marker for a target user in a virtual world, detects user devices via a wireless network, sends notifications based on predefined rules, and establishes communication channels through digital audio, video, or text chat applications, enabling enhanced user-to-user interaction by superimposing virtual replicas and allowing communication through solid physical matter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional phone calls or video calls are used for remote communication, then communication can be established between distant users, but the quality of interaction is diminished compared to personal encounters
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual replicas (avatars) that copy and represent users in the digital reality environment. These avatars replicate user presence, appearance, and characteristics, enabling immersive communication that feels more authentic than traditional phone or video calls while maintaining remote accessibility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions communication from traditional 2D video screens to a 3D spatial environment where users can interact with virtual replicas in a shared digital space. This dimensional enhancement creates more natural and immersive interactions while preserving remote communication capabilities
2Measurement precision
If GPS or real-time map applications are used to track user locations, then location information can be provided, but it remains difficult to find other users in crowded or unknown areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual markers with distinctive colors and characteristics to represent users in the digital reality. These markers make users easily distinguishable and detectable in crowded environments, solving the problem of finding specific individuals even when location data is available
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces virtual markers as intermediary objects between the GPS location system and user detection. These markers serve as visual mediators that translate abstract location coordinates into easily detectable visual representations in the digital reality environment
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If virtual markers are generated for all users in a digital reality, then user detection is improved, but system complexity and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies visual markers selectively based on local conditions such as user proximity, relevance, and contextual importance. Not all users receive identical marker treatment - instead, markers are dynamically applied based on local environmental factors and user-specific criteria, reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements marker generation as a partial solution rather than universally for all users at all times. Markers are generated selectively for relevant users in specific contexts, avoiding the excessive computational burden of universal marker implementation while maintaining effective user detection where needed
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AI summary
A method for enabling the enhanced user-to-user communication in digital realities comprising generating a marker of a target user that is persistently applied on the target user; detecting, through a wireless network, the presence of a target user device and counterpart user device connected to the server via the wireless network; sending a notification to the counterpart user device informing about the presence of the target user device based on a set of rules; receiving one or more forms of interaction from the counterpart user device on the marker of the target user; opening up a communication channel between the counterpart user device and target user device; and receiving, processing and accordingly redirecting corresponding communications through and between the counterpart user device and target user device. A system thereof is also disclosed.