XR Authoring Tool Framework for Cross-Platform Service Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing XR authoring tools are limited to specific platforms and data formats, leading to increased development costs and difficulties in producing and distributing XR services across various devices.
Innovation Solution
An XR authoring tool framework that supports multiple platforms and data formats, enabling data exchange and utilization of external authoring functions through standardized interfaces, and converting data to and from non-standard formats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an XR authoring tool is provided by a manufacturer for a specific XR device platform, then the authoring tool can be integrated with the platform's native features and data formats, but the authoring tool cannot be used with other XR devices from different manufacturers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authoring tool framework that can operate across multiple XR device platforms. The framework provides standardized interfaces and abstraction layers that enable the same authoring tool to work with different XR devices from various manufacturers, eliminating platform dependency while maintaining reliable integration through standardized communication protocols and data format conversions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary framework layer between the authoring tool and XR devices. This framework acts as a mediator that handles platform-specific adaptations, data format conversions, and interface translations, allowing the core authoring tool to remain platform-agnostic while maintaining reliable communication with diverse XR devices through standardized intermediate interfaces.
2Device complexity
If an authoring tool uses a specific data format supported only by that tool, then data processing within the tool is simplified, but the tool cannot utilize new authoring functions or external data sources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data processing architecture into distinct layers: a standardized internal format layer for simplified processing, and external interface layers for diverse data sources. This segmentation allows the core authoring tool to maintain simple processing with standardized formats while extending functionality through modular plugins and external interfaces that handle format conversions and additional authoring functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite data handling system that combines standardized internal data formats with flexible external format support. The framework integrates multiple data format capabilities into a unified system, allowing the authoring tool to process standardized data efficiently while incorporating external authoring functions and data sources through format conversion interfaces and plugin architectures.
3Ease of manufacture
If an XR authoring tool is restricted to a single platform, then development and distribution are simpler, but development costs increase for supporting multiple platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authoring tool framework that consolidates platform-specific code into a single standardized interface layer. This approach allows one version of the authoring tool to serve multiple XR device platforms, reducing the need to develop and maintain separate tool versions for each platform, thereby lowering total development costs while maintaining simple distribution through a unified tool package.
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AI summary
Provided are an XR authoring tool framework apparatus and method. An XR authoring tool framework according to an embodiment of the present invention provides: an XR device on which a platform supporting an authoring tool is mounted; an XR device on which a platform not supporting an authoring tool is mounted; and an authoring tool for generating an XR service for an XR device on which a platform is not mounted. Accordingly, an XR service can be manufactured without being subordinate to a platform, data transmission or reception and external authoring function usage are enabled through an interface standardized to a sensor or module attached to an XR device, and various data formats can be supported.