Samsung patents showing smart home alerts as avatars in metaverse
Samsung describes a system that checks the status of physical smart home devices while a user is in a virtual reality environment. If a device needs attention, the system creates a 3D avatar of that device inside the virtual space to alert the user.
In the filing’s own words
A method for managing one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a metaverse environment is provided. The method includes detecting that a user is engaged in the metaverse environment, monitoring, upon detecting that the user is engaged in the metaverse environment, an operating state of each of the one or more IoT devices in a real-world environment, determining at least one IoT device from the one or more IoT devices requiring user’s attention based on the monitored operating state of each of the one or more IoT, and generating, within the metaverse environment, an interactable avatar of the determined at least one IoT device requiring user’s attention, wherein the interactable avatar is a representative of an operating state of the at least one IoT device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by an electronic device for managing one or more internet of things (IoT) devices in a metaverse environment, the method comprising: monitoring at least one operating state of at least one IoT device in a real-world environment; determining an IoT device to generate an interactable avatar of the IoT device in the metaverse environment in which a user is engaged, based on the monitored at least one operating state of the at least one IoT device; and generating the interactable avatar of the determined IoT device in the metaverse environment, wherein the interactable avatar corresponds to an operating state of the determined IoT device.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IOT DEVICES IN A METAVERSE ENVIRONMENT
- Publication number
- US20260319572A1
- Application number
- 19467086
- Filed
- Feb 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 Physics & computingG06Q 10/40 Physics & computingG16Y 40/10 Physics & computingG16Y 40/30 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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