Wearable VR/AR Rule Enforcement for Flexible Confinement Care
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Solution Overview
Problem
Incarceration facilities often lack options for providing rehabilitative care and confinement flexibility, leading to issues such as limited privacy, mental health deterioration, gang activity, and self-harm, particularly for individuals under 24/7 supervision.
Innovation Solution
Implementing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems with wearable computing devices that receive and enforce rule sets from judicial and executive entities, allowing controlled environments and therapy plans, including proximity and tamper alerts, to provide confinement flexibility and therapeutic interventions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional incarceration facilities are used, then confinement and supervision are maintained, but rehabilitative care options are limited and mental health deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual dimension through VR/AR technology that overlays or replaces physical confinement environments. This allows incarcerated individuals to access rehabilitative programs, therapy sessions, and educational content in virtual spaces while maintaining physical supervision, thereby expanding rehabilitative options without compromising confinement integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable computing device acts as an intermediary between the confinement system and the individual, delivering therapeutic interventions, monitoring physiological states, and providing access to rehabilitative programs. This mediator enables sophisticated mental health support while maintaining enforcement of confinement conditions.
2Ease of operation
If strict 24/7 supervision is implemented, then confinement control is maintained, but privacy is reduced and mental health worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different levels of monitoring and privacy protection to different aspects of an individual's experience. Virtual environments provide private spaces for therapy and reflection, while physical locations maintain standard supervision. The wearable device monitors critical parameters continuously but provides privacy for non-critical personal activities.
3Adaptability or versatility
If VR/AR systems with wearable devices are implemented, then rehabilitative care and confinement flexibility are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable computing device is designed as a multi-functional platform that combines VR/AR capabilities, physiological monitoring, communication functions, and therapy delivery. This universal device consolidates multiple separate systems into one integrated unit, managing complexity through consolidation rather than proliferation of separate components.
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AI summary
This disclosure presents methods, systems, and devices for providing confinement flexibility via virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) to individuals that are incarcerated and or required to be incarcerated. According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes using a computing device for receiving a first rule set associated with a first entity and the first rule set is associated with the individual over a time period, receiving a second rule set associated with a second entity and the second entity is responsible for enforcement of the first rule set, receiving a third rule set associated with an environment in which the individual is allowed to be located during the time period, determining a first set of actions to be implemented by a wearable computing device that is in physical contact with the individual, and transmitting over a wireless network the first set of actions to the wearable computing device.