VR Product Recommendation Using User Environment Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers struggle to understand product specifications and requirements for electronic devices, especially in immersive reality environments, leading to inadequate product choices and missed accessory needs.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that utilizes immersive reality devices to receive user environment and specification data, generate virtual models, and recommend products and accessories to meet user requirements, integrating existing products and suggesting upgrades or new purchases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If consumers explore various consumer electronics in design centers to gather information, then they can access full range of features and specifications, but they face difficulty in determining which products meet their specific needs due to unfamiliarity with product specifications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of physical products in a digital environment. Users can interact with virtual representations of consumer electronics that replicate real product features and specifications, allowing them to explore and understand product capabilities without the complexity of interpreting technical specifications directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an AI-based intermediary that translates user needs into product recommendations. This mediator processes user inputs about desired features and environments, then matches them with appropriate products, eliminating the need for users to directly interpret complex product specifications.
2Reliability
If consumers manually evaluate product specifications to match their requirements, then they can make informed decisions, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing product specifications and user requirements into compatible formats. Virtual environments are pre-configured with product data, and AI models are pre-trained to understand both product capabilities and user needs, enabling rapid matching without manual evaluation during the shopping process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex product specifications into simplified, user-friendly parameters within the virtual environment. Instead of presenting raw technical specifications, the system converts them into visual and interactive representations that users can easily comprehend and compare against their needs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If consumers visit physical design centers to experience products, then they can interact with real devices, but they cannot easily visualize how products will function in their specific home or office environments
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates virtual copies of user environments (homes, offices) and places product representations within them. Users can visualize how products will look and function in their actual spaces without physically transporting products or setting up complex demonstration environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual environment platform serves multiple functions: it visualizes products in user spaces, simulates product performance, provides specification information, and generates recommendations. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate physical demonstration centers while achieving the same goals.
Data Source
AI summary
In an approach to recommend electronic products based on user specifications in an immersive reality environment, a computer-implemented method includes one or more processors configured for receiving user environment data comprising one or more of spatial data and image data corresponding to a user environment and receiving user input data corresponding to a user specified requirement in a virtual reality environment. Further, the computer-implemented method is configured for determining one or more product recommendations corresponding to one or more electronic devices based on the user specified requirement. Further, the computer-implemented method is configured for generating in a user interface of a virtual reality device, an augmented reality environment comprising virtual models of the one or more electronic devices displayed within the user environment.