XR Biometric Feedback Integration for Personalized Immersion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Extended reality devices are unable to utilize biometric data collected by wearable devices to update the extended reality environment, limiting the user's experience.
Innovation Solution
Wearable devices establish a wireless connection with user devices and extended reality devices to send biometric data, allowing the extended reality devices to provide visual, audio, and/or haptic feedback based on the collected data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If wearable devices collect biometric data, then data availability is improved, but the extended reality device cannot utilize the data resulting in loss of information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication interface and data transmission mechanism as intermediaries between the wearable device and extended reality device. The wearable device sends biometric data through wireless communication (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) to the extended reality device, enabling data utilization without requiring direct integration. This intermediary approach resolves the contradiction by establishing a data pathway while maintaining device independence.
Solution Approach 2:
The extended reality device is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both the primary extended reality experience provider and a biometric data processing system. By integrating biometric data reception, processing, and feedback capabilities into the existing extended reality device framework, the system achieves universal functionality without requiring separate dedicated systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the extended reality device provides feedback based on biometric data, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the biometric feedback functionality with the existing extended reality device components. The processor, display, audio output, and haptic actuators that already exist in the extended reality device are utilized for biometric feedback delivery. This merging approach enables personalized user experience without significantly increasing device complexity, as existing components are repurposed rather than adding entirely new subsystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a closed-loop feedback mechanism where biometric data is continuously monitored, processed, and used to adjust the extended reality experience in real-time. The feedback is delivered through multiple channels (visual, audio, haptic) that are naturally integrated into the extended reality device. This feedback principle enables adaptability while maintaining manageable complexity through systematic data-flow management.
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are integrated to collect comprehensive biometric data, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the biometric data collection functionality into separate wearable device and extended reality device components. The wearable device houses multiple specialized sensors (heart rate, temperature, motion) that are optimized for their specific functions, while the extended reality device handles data processing and feedback. This segmentation allows high measurement precision through specialized sensors without concentrating all complexity in a single device.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless communication interface acts as an intermediary that transfers processed biometric data from the wearable device to the extended reality device. This intermediary approach allows the wearable device to maintain simple sensor integration while the extended reality device performs comprehensive data analysis, distributing complexity across the system rather than concentrating it in one location.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and devices for a wearable device are described. An extended reality device may establish a connection with a wearable device, such as directly with the wearable device or via a user device connected with the wearable device. The extended reality device may acquire biometric data from sensors of the wearable device, the biometric data for a user of the extended reality device and the wearable device. The extended reality device may provide feedback to the user by updating an extended reality environment, an extended reality experience, or both. For example, the extended reality device may provide visual feedback, audio feedback, haptic feedback, or any combination thereof.