Systems and methods for real-time virtual-reality immersive multimedia communications

摘要

A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support the operation of a Virtual Media Room or Virtual Meeting Room (VMR), wherein each VMR can accept from a plurality of participants at different geographic locations a variety of video conferencing feeds of audio and video streams from video conference endpoints. The approach further utilizes virtual reality and augmented-reality techniques to transform the video and audio streams from the participants in various customizable ways to achieve a rich set of user experiences. A globally distributed infrastructure supports the sharing of the event among the participants at geographically distributed locations through a plurality of MCUs (Multipoint Control Unit), each configured to process the plurality of audio and video streams from the plurality of video conference endpoints in real time.