XR Mode Manager for Safe VR-MR Transitions and Object Persistence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing artificial reality systems lack effective management of transitions between virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) modes, and the persistence of virtual objects across these modes, leading to user safety and experience inconsistencies.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a mode manager that automatically boots into the last used mode, ensures user safety by checking for a defined usage space before entering VR, manages transitions between VR and MR modes based on user actions or movements, and alters the display of virtual objects according to the operating mode.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows free transitions between VR and MR modes, then user flexibility and adaptability are improved, but user safety and experience consistency deteriorate due to lack of usage space verification
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary usage space verification before allowing transition to VR mode. The mode manager checks whether the user is located within a predefined usage space boundary before enabling VR immersion, preventing unsafe transitions while maintaining flexible mode switching capability.
2Reliability
If virtual objects persist across mode transitions, then user experience consistency is improved, but system complexity increases due to additional state management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The mode manager automatically manages virtual object persistence across mode transitions without requiring manual user intervention. The system self-manages the state of virtual objects, automatically restoring them when transitioning between VR and MR modes, which simplifies the user experience while managing complexity internally.
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically boots into the last used mode, then user convenience is improved, but system reliability worsens when usage space conditions are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The mode manager implements a feedback mechanism that checks usage space conditions before automatically booting into VR mode. The system verifies whether the user is currently located within the usage space boundary, and only then proceeds with automatic VR boot, ensuring both convenience and safety through this feedback loop.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the system alters virtual object display according to operating mode, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information occurs during mode transitions
Solution Approach 1:
The mode manager maintains continuity of virtual object state information during mode transitions. When transitioning between VR and MR modes, the system preserves the state of virtual objects and continues their display with consistent properties, ensuring that the useful action of displaying virtual objects remains uninterrupted and information is not lost.
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AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to managing mixed reality and virtual reality operating modes using an artificial reality system. An artificial reality system can be capable of operating in a virtual reality mode, where the environment displayed to a user is computer generated, or mixed reality mode, where the environment displayed to a user represents the user's real-world environment but includes one or more virtual objects that are computer generated. Implementations of a mode manager can manage these operating modes of the artificial reality system, such as managing the operating mode an XR system boots into on startup, managing transitions between these operating modes, and managing the display of virtual objects that persist in both operating modes.