VR Guidance Validation via Preliminary Simulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Virtual Reality (VR) systems used for remote guidance can provide misleading instructions if they contain malicious or incorrect code, potentially leading to accidents in physical environments.

Innovation Solution

An IoT-enabled system communicates with VR devices to validate guidance, predicting if VR instructions could cause accidents and providing notifications or shutting off the VR system to prevent harm, while also analyzing guidance patterns to identify malicious code and restricting sensor information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If VR system provides remote guidance in physical environment, then user can perform activities with guidance, but VR system may contain malicious or incorrect code that provides misleading guidance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveremote guidance capabilityVSAvoidguidance accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary simulation of the VR guidance instructions in a virtual copy of the physical environment before executing them in reality. This advance validation detects potential harmful effects of malicious or incorrect code before the user follows the guidance, resolving the contradiction by ensuring reliability while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary simulation system that acts as a mediator between the VR guidance system and the physical environment. This intermediary validates guidance instructions by simulating them in a virtual replica of the physical space, preventing misleading guidance from reaching the user while preserving the remote guidance capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If VR system provides immersive guidance experience, then user engagement increases, but user may be disconnected from physical surroundings and perform unsafe actions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimmersive experienceVSAvoidsafety risk in physical environment

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system simulates guidance actions in advance in a virtual environment that replicates the physical surroundings, allowing the user to experience immersive VR guidance while the system pre-validates safety. This prevents harmful actions before they occur in the physical environment, resolving the contradiction between immersion and safety.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the simulation system analyzes VR guidance instructions and provides safety validation feedback before the user executes actions in the physical environment. This feedback loop maintains immersive experience while preventing unsafe actions by alerting users to potential hazards.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20230137459A1Proactive simulation based cyber-threat prevention

Publication Date: 2023.05.04 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A processor may receive guidance information from one or more devices. The one or more devices may be in a physical environment. The processor may generate a virtual reality (VR) environment based on the physical environment. The processor may generate a guidance of the guidance information in the VR environment. The processor may determine whether the guidance of the guidance information is performable. The processor may notify a user of the performability of the guidance.