Platform to Create and Disseminate Virtual User Experiences

• US 20180059898A1
• Filed: 08/24/2016
• Published: 03/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Miller, Gavin Stuart Peter, Rehman-Murphy, Nadia, Edwards, Cory Lynn, Fransen, Peter Raymond
• Application Number:
  US15/246,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20180059898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

Techniques and systems are described to implement a platform to create and disseminate virtual user experiences. In one example, a service provider exposes a platform usable for creation of virtual user experiences. In another example, a service provider exposes functionality to enable specification of physical environment conditions to be met in order to cause dissemination of respective virtual user experiences maintained by the service provider. In one instance, triggers are detected by a computing device of a user that are indicative of a likelihood to cause output of a virtual user experience. Once triggered, the computing device communicates data describing physical environment conditions to the service provider. The service provider then matches these conditions to specified physical environment conditions that are to be used to control dissemination of the virtual user experience.

Claims

1. In a digital medium environment to manage a platform of a service provider to create a virtual user experience, a method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

generating, by the at least one computing device, a capability matrix defining capabilities of a plurality of different types of computing devices of a virtual user experience as part of an augmented or virtual reality environment;

receiving, by the at least one computing device, inputs specifying which of the defined capabilities of the capability matrix are common to at least a subset of the plurality of different types of computing devices; and

exposing, by the at least one computing device, a platform to support user interaction to create the virtual user experience having the specified defined capabilities as part of an augmented or virtual reality environment by at least the subset of the plurality of different types of computing devices.

2. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising adapting, by the least one computing device, the virtual user experience for use by at least one other type of the computing devices based on a defined relationship of the capabilities within the capability matrix.

3. The method as described in claim 2, wherein the adapting includes adapting the virtual user experience between virtual and augmented reality environment uses.

4. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising updating, by the least one computing device, the platform based on at least one change to the capability matrix.

5. The method as described in claim 4, wherein the subset of the plurality of different types of computing devices that support the virtual user experience changes based on the updating to include a type of the computing devices that corresponds to the change.

6. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the inputs are generated automatically and without user intervention by the at least one computing device.

7. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the inputs are originated by a user.

8. In a digital medium environment to manage a platform of a service provider to control dissemination of virtual user experiences, a method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the at least one computing device of the service provider, a plurality of virtual user experiences, each of which is configured for rendering as part of a virtual or augmented reality environment;

exposing, by the at least one computing device of the service provider, functionality to receive requests to specify physical environment conditions used to control output of respective ones of the plurality of virtual user experiences;

obtaining, by the at least one computing device of the service provider, data describing physical environment conditions of respective ones of a plurality of computing devices; and

controlling, by the at least one computing device of the service provider, the dissemination of the plurality of virtual user experiences to the respective computing devices based on correspondence of the data with respective ones of the specified physical environment conditions.

9. The method as described in claim 8, wherein the exposing of the functionality includes a user interface configured to receive an indication to be used as calculation of a monetary amount to be paid to the service provider to control dissemination of respective ones of the plurality of virtual user experiences with respect to specified physical environment conditions.

10. The method as described in claim 9, wherein the monetary amount is specified as a bid as part of an auction or permission to include an advertisement.

11. The method as described in claim 8, wherein the physical environment conditions pertain to physical characteristics of a user of respective ones of the plurality of computing devices.

12. The method as described in claim 8, wherein the physical environment conditions describe user interactions with physical goods or services.

13. The method as described in claim 8, wherein the physical environment conditions describe physical goods or services that are detected as proximal to a respective computing device of the plurality of computing devices.

14. The method as described in claim 13, wherein the physical goods or services are detected using object recognition from digital images captured of a physical environment in which the respective computing device is disposed.

15. The method as described in claim 8, wherein the physical environment conditions describe a location within a physical store by respective ones of the plurality of computing devices.

16. In a digital medium environment to output a virtual user experience, a method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

detecting, by the at least one computing device, a physical environment condition of a physical environment, in which, the at least one computing device is disposed;

determining, by the at least one computing device, that a triggering condition has been met that is likely to cause output of a virtual user experience based on the detecting;

responsive to the determining that the triggering condition has been met, communicating data by the at least one computing device via a network to a service provider that is configured to control dissemination of a plurality of said virtual user experiences;

receiving, by the at least one computing device, at least one of a plurality of said virtual user experiences that have been selected by the service provider as corresponding to the physical environment condition described by the communicated data; and

rendering, by the at least one computing device, the at least one of the plurality of virtual user experiences as part of virtual or augmented reality.

17. The method as described in claim 16, wherein the physical environment conditions describe user interactions with physical goods or services.

18. The method as described in claim 16, wherein the physical environment conditions describe physical goods or services that are detected as proximal to a respective computing device of the plurality of computing devices.

19. The method as described in claim 16, wherein the physical environment conditions describe a location within a physical store by respective ones of the plurality of computing devices.

20. The method as described in claim 16, wherein the at least one of the plurality of said virtual user experiences is selected by the service provider based at least in part on a monetary amount the service provider is to receive to control the dissemination of at least one of the plurality of said virtual user experiences with respective to the physical environment condition.