Physical surrounding modification user experience for synchronized mirror world VR content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12045911-B2
Application number	US-202217659496-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 18, 2022
Priority date	Apr 18, 2022
Publication date	Jul 23, 2024
Grant date	Jul 23, 2024

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for synchronizing a physical environment with a virtual environment is provided. The present invention may include analyzing a virtual environment to determine one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment; scanning, with one or more sensors, a physical environment to identify one or more physical movements required for the user to navigate within the physical environment; responsive to determining that the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment do not match the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the physical environment, identifying how the physical environment must be modified to incorporate the physical movements of the virtual environment; and communicating the identified modifications to the physical environment to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processor-implemented method for synchronizing a physical environment with a virtual environment, the method comprising:
analyzing the virtual environment to determine one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment;
scanning, with one or more sensors, the physical environment to identify one or more physical movements required for the user to navigate within the physical environment;
responsive to determining that the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment do not match the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the physical environment, identifying how one or more objects in the physical environment must be modified to incorporate the physical movements of the virtual environment; and
communicating the identified modifications to the physical environment to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
communicating to the user where existing physical structures may be reused to enact the identified modifications.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified modifications are based on identifying how the virtual environment can be navigated with minimum change in the physical environment.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features identified based on the age, weight, or health of the user.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
communicating to the user a sequence of steps for enacting the one or more identified modifications.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual environment is a mirror world mirroring the physical environment.

8. A computer system for synchronizing a physical environment with a virtual environment, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
analyzing the virtual environment to determine one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment;
scanning, with one or more sensors, the physical environment to identify one or more physical movements required for the user to navigate within the physical environment;
responsive to determining that the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment do not match the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the physical environment, identifying how one or more objects in the physical environment must be modified to incorporate the physical movements of the virtual environment; and
communicating the identified modifications to the physical environment to the user.

9. The computer system of claim 8 , further comprising:
communicating to the user where existing physical structures may be reused to enact the identified modifications.

10. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the identified modifications are based on identifying how the virtual environment can be navigated with minimum change in the physical environment.

11. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features.

12. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features identified based on the age, weight, or health of the user.

13. The computer system of claim 8 , further comprising:
communicating to the user a sequence of steps for enacting the one or more identified modifications.

14. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the virtual environment is a mirror world mirroring the physical environment.

15. A computer program product for synchronizing a physical environment with a virtual environment, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
analyzing the virtual environment to determine one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment;
scanning, with one or more sensors, the physical environment to identify one or more physical movements required for the user to navigate within the physical environment;
responsive to determining that the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the virtual environment do not match the one or more physical movements required for a user to navigate within the physical environment, identifying how one or more objects in the physical environment must be modified to incorporate the physical movements of the virtual environment; and
communicating the identified modifications to the physical environment to the user.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , further comprising: communicating to the user where existing physical structures may be reused to enact the identified modifications.

17. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the identified modifications are based on identifying how the virtual environment can be navigated with minimum change in the physical environment.

18. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features.

19. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the identified modifications comprise one or more safety features identified based on the age, weight, or health of the user.

20. The computer program product of claim 15 , further comprising: communicating to the user a sequence of steps for enacting the one or more identified modifications.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Mene Atul
• Agrawal Tushar
• Fox Jeremy R
• Rakshit Sarbajit K

Classifications

• G06F3/011

  Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00) · CPC title

• G06T2200/24

  involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs] · CPC title

• G06T11/00 Primary

  Two-dimensional [2D] image generation · CPC title