Virtual Reality Network System for Personalized Visitor Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Virtual reality representations are limited in their ability to adapt to individual visitors' perspectives and preferences, requiring specialized programming skills and failing to provide a personalized experience, hindering broader adoption and user engagement.

Innovation Solution

A network system that connects virtual reality representations to form a virtual universe, allowing visitors to select and experience locations based on their 'VISUALIZATION' and 'RULES' points of view without needing programming skills, using a simplified file format and self-regulating quality control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If virtual reality representations use standardized simplified file formats, then ease of manufacture improves, but manufacturing precision deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of creationVSAvoidquality control
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-regulating quality control mechanisms where the system automatically evaluates and manages the quality of user-generated virtual reality content. The standardized file format includes embedded quality metrics and validation rules that enable automatic assessment without requiring specialized programming skills from content creators, thus maintaining ease of manufacture while ensuring manufacturing precision through automated quality assurance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If virtual reality systems adapt to individual visitor perspectives, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovepersonalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables adaptation to individual visitor perspectives by allowing dynamic modification of visualization parameters and rules within the virtual reality environment. Visitors can adjust parameters such as visualization types, rules types, and presentation formats according to their preferences, while the system maintains manageable complexity through standardized file formats and automated quality control mechanisms that handle the computational burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If virtual reality requires specialized programming skills, then manufacturing precision improves, but ease of manufacture deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality controlVSAvoidease of creation
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs standardized file formats that serve as templates or copies of best practices for creating virtual reality content. These predefined formats encapsulate quality control rules and validation mechanisms, allowing users to create high-quality virtual reality representations without needing specialized programming skills. The formats act as reusable blueprints that ensure manufacturing precision while simplifying the creation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10474711B1System and methods for effective virtual reality visitor interface
Publication Date: 2019.11.12 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

A virtual reality network provides access to a number of virtual reality representations, each virtual reality representation representing a location in a virtual universe and defined by VR data stored on the network. The VR data can be in a simplified data format. A database stores the network address and the location in the universe of each virtual reality representation. A database server provides access to the database. The database server generates a list of locations in response to a location query from a visitor, and provides the network address of the virtual reality representation of a selected location. A visitor connects to the database server with a client host to visit the locations in the virtual universe.