We researched metaverse patents that can provide innovation insights for the metaverse platform development.

3D Metaverse Space Development-3D Rendering:

3D rendering enables a creation of a metaverse space (digital scene). In integration with XR technology, 3D rendering creates a link between reality and virtuality and enhances people’s sense of immersive experience in a metaverse space for a variety of metaverse applications. A Samsung Electronics patent US20210074052 illustrates a 3D rendering method  to effectively sample points in a 3D scene and to more quickly perform a 3D rendering with a low complexity without a decrease in a quality of a rendering result image. A neural network-based deep learning model is trained on results obtained by simulations of various rendering conditions through a training process, and a 3D rendering is performed using the trained deep learning model during a real 3D rendering.

3D Metaverse Space Development-2D to 3D Translation:

Metaverse is a new way for people to use the internet by transforming it from 2D to 3D. If we can translate 2D webpage into a 3D space and web content into 3D objects, users can walk around inside and interact with other users. Users can interact with the web content virtually and immerse themselves in the virtual space. A Janus Vr Inc patent US20190005716 illustrates a method for translating a legacy 2D web page into a 3D virtual reality immersive space. While web pages were originally designed to represent a 3D real-world, all web contents are generally laid out in as regions on a 2D page using a HTML. Conventional approaches to add spatiality to the internet are to essentially adapt HTML and Document Object Model (DOM) to represent a 3D space. The DOM is a programming API for HTML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. A solution is to extract DOM elements from the legacy web page and place DOM elements into the 3D VR immersive space.

3D Metaverse Object Development-2D to 3D Conversion:

Metaverse experience platform supports use of virtual 3D objects that mimic physical objects within a 3D virtual space. Users can design and introduce various categories of virtual objects, e.g., products and vehicles. Users also can create, design, and/or customize new objects. A Roblox patent US20220068007 illustrates a method for 3D objects from corresponding 2D images within a virtual environment. Prior approaches cannot make the metaverse experience platform operators accurate, timely, and computationally efficient for generation of 3D object representations that are usable within a virtual environment. The trained machine learning models to generate automatically a 3D reconstruction as a useable and practical 3D object from 2D images of an object can be used.

Interactive Experience Design-Multi-Sensory Perception:

Multi-sensory data (visual, auditory, olfactory, tasting, and tactile), in combination with 3D visualization of a variety of humans and objects, can be used to create a comprehensive user-specific platform which can be used to simulate the real-life experience an individual end-user would have with the local environment and various objects contained within it. US20190011700 illustrates a customizable 3D interactive visualization method and multi-sensory system. Primary sensory input is visual in nature, and the use of 3D techniques to produce 3D visualization of a variety of subject matter including humans and objects is not yet commonplace. By integrating the computerized multi-sensory technologies (e.g., biological sensors, image-capturing devices and environmental sensors) with 3D virtual imagery (i.e., holograms), one can effectively create a virtual human, capable of experiencing a myriad of user and context-specific sensory interactions with the local environment.

Virtual Product Development-NFT Digital Assets:

A non-fungible token (NFT) for representing a digital good (asset) can be associated with a physical good. For example, NFTs allow users to create or purchase digital fashion goods (clothing, shoes, hats, watches, jewelry, and so forth) from sellers, where the digital goods can be used, store, or exchange by the user. These digital goods can be stored within a standard Web3 wallet (e.g. MetaMask). A Nike patent US20200273048 illustrates a secured digital goods for retail products. Within the digital realm, anti-counterfeiting techniques than can help identify counterfeit digital goods and to prevent illicit sales of such counterfeits are essential. Counterfeits complicate a brand owner’s ability to control the exclusivity of a digital goods, and thus, have influence regarding the value of that goods. For a purchase of an authentic, tangible good, a corresponding digital good  with a unique physical good ID code of the physical good linked to a unique owner ID code of the buyer can be provided using  ERC 721 or ERC1155 NFT to access, breed, and transact the digital good.