XR Virtual Display Rendering for Secure Shared Workspaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in providing secure, confidential, and space-efficient methods for sharing digital information among users, especially in environments with space, power, or weight limitations, and current screen-sharing applications disrupt existing workspaces.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating virtual displays using extended reality devices, involving a host computing device that captures, encodes, and transmits image frames to XR display devices for rendering in an extended reality space, ensuring secure and space-efficient information sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If physical displays are added to a workspace to provide more information, then information availability is improved, but security risk increases due to potential observation by nearby individuals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions display from the physical dimension to the virtual dimension by rendering displays within an extended reality environment. This allows multiple displays to be positioned in three-dimensional space without physical constraints, providing more information while maintaining security through controlled access to the XR environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of display content within the extended reality environment rather than using physical displays. These virtual displays can be positioned and configured without physical hardware, eliminating the security risk of physical observation while maintaining full information availability for authorized users.
2Quantity of substance
If physical displays are added to a workspace to provide more information, then information availability is improved, but space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves displays from physical space to virtual XR space, allowing unlimited display arrangement without consuming physical workspace. Multiple high-resolution displays can be positioned in three-dimensional virtual space, providing extensive information availability without increasing physical footprint.
3Adaptability or versatility
If screen-sharing applications are used to share visual data, then collaboration is enabled, but workspace is reduced as video streams occupy display space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables screen sharing by rendering shared displays in the extended reality environment rather than overlaying video streams on the physical display. This allows collaborators to view shared content in a dedicated virtual space, eliminating workspace reduction while maintaining full collaboration capability.
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AI summary
Exemplary systems and methods for generating an extended display include a host computing device having a processor and a physical display device. The host computing device establishes a communication session with an extended reality display device. The host computing device generates plural image frames for output to the physical display device, captures and encode each image frame, and generates a video stream including the encoded image frames. The video stream is transmitted to the at least one extended reality display device for rendering the video stream as a virtual display in an extended reality space about the physical display device.