370 results about "Virtual interaction" patented technology

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for real time online interaction and social consumption of media by multiple users. A virtual interaction platform is provided for use by the users for the real time online interaction. A synchronous media layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform. An interaction layer comprising multiple interaction modes for enabling the users to engage in group interactions is provided on the virtual interaction platform. A reporting, archiving, and analysis layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform. Multimedia content is simulcasted for synchronous viewing by the users using the synchronous media layer. Group interactions among the users are enabled by the interaction layer using multiple interaction modes. A marketing layer is provided on the virtual interaction platform for targeting in-platform advertisements to the users. The simulcasted multimedia content is therefore consumed by the users while interacting using the interaction modes.

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for enabling real-time synchronous group interactions among participants in a virtual discussion forum. The virtual discussion forum may be a web seminar, an online conference session, an online debate, an online learning session, etc. A virtual interaction platform comprising a synchronous media layer, an interaction layer, and a reporting, archiving, and analysis layer is provided to the participants. The virtual interaction platform enables synchronous group interactions among the participants by introducing discussion issues for the virtual discussion forum. Media content related to the discussion issues is synchronously rendered to the participants. The virtual interaction platform enables the participants to interact with each other and respond to questions, polls, etc. posted in the virtual discussion forum. The virtual interaction platform determines group behavior by analyzing participants' responses and interactions and displays participants' group behavior by visually representing individual and group traits.

A computer based virtual reality trading system for trading financial products such as commodities and stocks uses a server based system for generating a virtual trading floor to simulate an exchange. Traders use local PC's to direct their individual avatars interactively on the virtual trading floor, using hand and voice signals similar to a non-virtual exchange. This allows an exchange to be de-coupled from its physical geographic location as traders in diverse locations can interact on the virtual trading floor. The system enables accurate tracking for audit of the trade activity and simplified trade clearing, while retaining the dynamics of a non-virtual exchange.

A contact center has channels for receiving communications requesting interaction with an agent, agent stations providing connection ability to received communications, and a Virtual Interaction (VI) Server connected to the LAN and executing VI software on a processor from a non-transitory medium. The VI Server creates and stores a Virtual Interaction object based on determination of an expected receipt of a future communication, the VI associating a source, an intent, a set of data regarding the source, and an agent station destination, and the created VI is stored and matched with a real incoming communication from the source associated in the VI, and the VI is then instantiated as a live interaction by connecting the source of the incoming call with the agent destination associated in the VI.

An online environment server hosts an event, such as a class period or interactive entertainment event, in a virtual reality process. Clients are divided into groups as they join the process according to defined group and user profiles and current group capacities. A human host, such as a teaching assistant, may also join each group as a moderator or administrator. Each group member interacts in real time with other group members via electronic chat. Recordings of group sessions may be accessed later by non-group members. The group server is configured such that the group moderator or administrator may control classroom data flow for her assigned group, such as pausing an animated stream of instructor or event input into the virtual classroom to allow classroom questions or discussion, causing the stream to be cached at the system level. Then, the moderator may resume play of the instructional sequence. When resuming play after a pause, the system server may automatically speed up play of the animated input stream from a cache while continuing to cache as necessary, until parity is reached with the current input stream for all groups.

The invention discloses a virtual interaction system and method based on a client/server mode. The system comprises a client and a server, wherein the client and the server carry out data communication on the basis of a remote desktop protocol. A virtualization technology is adopted by the server, and the server comprises a control center, a security center and a plurality of proxy servers, wherein the control center is used for configuring application program lists and algorithms and secret keys of data encryption, the security center is used for configuring security policies and security levels, and the proxy servers are used for installing related applications, loading local resources and deploying http forward services. The virtual interaction system and method based on the client/server mode have the advantages that in terms of cross-platform clients, the virtual interaction system and method based on the client/server mode have access to resource control of the proxy servers, integrate idle resource virtual proxy servers of the server, verify legal users, verify limitation of user security levels, feed back security encryption of requested data, filter the http requests of the users, and provide server application program services.

Embodiments of the invention provide a virtual interaction method and a terminal. The virtual interaction method comprises the following steps of receiving a live content of a first virtual image sentby a first terminal of a first user; presenting the live content of the first virtual image on an interactive interface of a second terminal of a second user in order to enable the first user to interact with the first virtual image; presenting commercial information combined with the first virtual image on the interactive interface; and realizing commercial transaction between the first user andthe second user according to commercial transaction information input for the commercial information by the second user. According to the technical scheme of the invention, a virtual interactive modewhich is vivid, relatively strong in interactivity and capable of realizing commercial realization is provided.

The invention discloses a geographical position-based virtual interaction method and a system thereof. The method includes the following steps that: whether the current geographic position of a mobile terminal is in a covering rang of marked areas is judged; if the geographic position is within the covering rang, the mobile device sends a data request to a background server, when the background server receives the data request, the background server generates a data packet according to the data request and sends the data packet to the mobile device; and when receiving the data packet, the mobile device generates a corresponding virtual interaction environment according to data content contained in the data packet. According to the embodiment of the invention, a novel virtual interaction manner is provided; the coordinates of a target site are obtained; corresponding information is searched or new information is established in the background server; images or videos can be displayed; interaction with a user can be realized; and therefore, realistic experience can be creased, and user experience can be improved.

A full motion capture and haptic feedback suite which allows users to touch and feel virtual objects used with a KINECT or made into a hybrid state using 9-axis sensors to move freely outside the view of the KINECT. The suite uses a combined software and hardware platform for immersive virtual reality, capable of tracking a user's movements, translating them into a virtual space, and providing haptic feedback when the user comes into contact with a virtual object. Essentially, this allows a user to “feel” the object, adding another level of sensation on top of the visual feedback provided by a television or a headset. The system uses a KINECT and an integrated sensor network to detect the user's position in a space without the traditional limits of a consumer motion capture system. It then sends touch feedback to a custom-designed feedback suit based on virtual interactions.

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for updating contact information according to metadata associated with a virtual world. In response to an avatar of a first user interacting with an avatar of a second user in a virtual world, information comprising a name of the avatar of the second user and metadata associated with the avatar of the second user is sent to the first user. In response to receiving the information, contact information associated with the name of the avatar of the second user is determined. The contact information is organized based on the metadata to form organized contact information. The organized contact information is prioritized according to the metadata to form prioritized contact information. The prioritized contact information is stored.

The invention discloses a virtual cinema interaction system and method. The virtual cinema interaction system comprises a multimedia module used for obtaining film information from a webpage and obtaining audio and video data of the film based on a corresponding relationship between the film information and a film storage address; a virtual scene module used for generating a virtual scene of a cinema, wherein the virtual scene includes a screen, seats, an evaluation interface and a communication interface; an interactive communication module used for sending interactive communication information among audiences to the communication interface, issuing evaluation information and grade information to the evaluation interface; and an evaluation module used for collecting evaluation information of the audiences, calculating average value of grades given by the audiences and updating the average value and the grade information to the film information. The virtual cinema interaction system, disclosed by the invention, has the advantages of achieving cinema effects, evaluating film and realizing the virtual cinema with communication among audiences. By simulating the screen and the seats of a true cinema and adding the evaluation interface and the communication interface to add interaction among the audiences, the entertainment purpose of watching the film is not only realized, but the social purpose is also realized.

The invention discloses a virtual interactive direct broadcast system. The system comprises a direct broadcast end used for an anchor to perform direct broadcast, an audience end used for an audienceto perform watching, and a server used for controlling a direct broadcast process; the server is connected with the direct broadcast end and the audience end through a network; the direct broadcast end is provided with a virtual scene module used for acquiring and establishing a virtual scene, a portrait acquisition module used for acquiring action expressions of the anchor, and a scene synthesismodule used for synthesizing a virtual picture and an anchor portrait into a direct broadcast picture; and the audience end is provided with an interactive selection module used for selecting an interactive mode, an action storage module used for storing and fixing the virtual scene, and an action synthesis module used for making interactive actions. The anchor selects the virtual scene through the direct broadcast end, and the direct broadcast picture is synthesized in combination with the action of the anchor; and the audience selects the interactive mode through the audience end, and an action template is provided in combination with the action of the audience to synthesize the interactive action for interaction with the anchor.

The invention discloses a real-time video camera tracking method based on key frames, which comprises the following steps: (1) capturing an index image sequence, and restoring a sparse three-dimensional characteristic point structure of a scene by a method of inferring a structure from movement; (2) giving the index image sequence and the sparse three-dimensional characteristic point structure, and automatically selecting the key frames by optimizing an energy function related to the key frames; (3) in the real-time video camera tracking process, for each frame of real-time input image, firstly, quickly positioning a candidate key frame similar to the real-time input image from the key frame set by a characteristic word tree method of image recognition; and (4) matching the characteristic points abstracted on the real-time input image with the characteristic points on the candidate key frame, obtaining the corresponding three dimensional coordinates of the characteristic points on the image, and calculating the directionality parameters of the video camera. The invention has high calculating efficiency and stable solving result, and the video camera tracking result obtained by the method can be directly used for the applications of reality enhancement, virtual interaction and the like.

A virtual interactive multiplayer platform and method of use is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the general steps of the method herein are: downloading scenario software, determining, a scenario and activating it, generating a quest scenario, entry of the system by a number of players, selecting a team for each entered player, entry of each player into the quest scenario itself, running the virtual interactive quest scenario, collecting data regarding player and team interaction and performance, and assessing team and player performance. The interactive multiplayer platform places each player in the role of a team member working with other virtual team members to manage and solve simulated situations. The virtual interactive multiplayer platform can be used for a number of training and educational purposes such as, e.g., for the medical car health professions, corporate members, the military or diplomatic corps or other arms of government, and K-12 teachers or students.

The invention relates to a dynamic capture and holographic projection-based remote interactive method and belongs to the field of man-machine interaction. The method comprises the steps of storing a shared virtual scene and a shared virtual model in a cloud end, storing custom virtual scene and virtual model in a database of a user, performing motion capture by using an optical motion capture device, and performing voice capture by using an audio input device; then, establishing a logic host in the cloud end to manage a primary logic slave and a secondary logic slave to process collected data; and finally projecting received three-dimensional scene holographic information processed in the cloud end to air or water mist by using a three-dimensional holographic projection technology through a client, thereby realizing interaction between the user and a three-dimensional image. By utilizing technologies of motion capture, holographic projection and the like, video communication is extended to a naked eye augmented reality technology of remote virtual interaction.

Long Elements Method (LEM) for real time physically based dynamic simulation of deformable objects. The LEM is based on a new meshing strategy using long elements whose forms can be straight or arbitrary. The LEM implements a static solution for elastic global deformations of objects filled with fluid based on the Pascal's principle and volume conservation. The volumes are discretised in long elements, defining meshes one order of magnitude smaller than meshes based on tetrahedral or cubic elements. The LEM further combines static and dynamic approaches to simulate the same deformable medium, allowing modeling a three-dimensional internal state at any point inside the deforming medium from a reduced number of explicitly updated elements. Complex elastic and plastic deformations can be simulated in real time with less computational effort. The LEM is particularly useful in real time virtual interactions, soft tissue modeling, and graphic and haptic rendering.

The invention relates to the technical field of virtual reality, in particular to a virtual interaction display system and a virtual interaction display method for agricultural products based on an augmented-reality technology. An interaction module is used by a visitor for selecting an agricultural product type and a display content type; an acquisition module is for acquiring selection information of the interaction module; an identification module is used for identifying the selection information; and a drawing module is used for selecting display contents from a database module according to an identification result fed back by the identification module and displaying on a display terminal. Due to the adoption of the virtual interaction display system and the virtual interaction display method, the application requirements of introduction, promotion, popular science education and the like on specific agricultural products can be met, and the field display interest and appeal of the agricultural products are enhanced; and meanwhile, the virtual interaction display system and the virtual interaction display method have the characteristics of easiness, practicability and capability of flexibly expanding display contents.

Techniques for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users are provided. The techniques include extracting a dynamically changing context from two or more users, wherein the context comprises at least one of user-provided information and one or more items related to at least one of current activity and past activity of the two or more users, analyzing the context from each user to create a classification for each user, comparing the classification for each user with a classification for each additional user, wherein comparing comprises ordering each user in terms of closeness to each additional user, and using the ordering of each user in terms of closeness to each additional user to facilitate a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of one or more user classifications.