Delivery and monitoring use of licensed content in augmented reality

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for monitoring and delivering licensed content, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• display an interactive guided process comprising at least one augmented reality (AR) layer through an AR device;
• detect user interactions during the interactive guided process in the at least one AR layer as a content request and store the user interactions in a user interaction log through operation of an AR controller;
• validate the content request through operation of a content license authenticator;
• and
• on condition a user has a valid license to requested content, release the requested content to the AR device;
• and
• on condition the user does not have a valid license to the requested content, notify the user of the lack of the valid license for the requested content and not release the requested content to the AR device;
• display the requested content through the at least one AR layer;
• record user content interactions with the requested content in a content interaction log comprising previous user content interactions with previous requested content;
• normalize the user content interactions to the previous user content interactions and generate user engagement metrics for the requested content through operation of an analytics engine;
• and
• communicate the user engagement metrics and previous user interactions to a content management engine.

A computing apparatus for monitoring and delivering licensed content, the computing apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to:
• display an interactive guided process comprising at least one augmented reality (AR) layer through an AR device;
• detect user interactions during the interactive guided process in the at least one AR layer as a content request and store the user interactions in a user interaction log through operation of an AR controller;
• validate the content request through operation of a content license authenticator;
• and
• on condition a user has a valid license to requested content, release the requested content to the AR device;
• and
• on condition the user does not have a valid license to the requested content, notify the user of the lack of the valid license for the requested content and not release the requested content to the AR device;
• display the requested content through the at least one AR layer;
• record user content interactions with the requested content in a content interaction log comprising previous user content interactions with previous requested content;
• normalize the user content interactions to the previous user content interactions and generate user engagement metrics for the requested content through operation of an analytics engine;
• and
• communicate the user engagement metrics and previous user interactions to a content management engine.