Patent ID: 7818770

Claim:
A computer controlled method comprising: establishing a control link between a remote device and a local device; establishing a human communication channel between a local audience member and a remote audience member; monitoring a first playback position in a time dimension of a first experiential data stream on said local device for said local audience member; monitoring a second playback position in said time dimension of a second experiential data stream on said remote device for said remote audience member; establishing a shared social space between the remote audience member and the local audience member to facilitate their communication over the human communication channel about their shared experience of the experiential data stream, which involves aligning the first and second playback positions to create the shared experience; and reproducing at the local device two or more overlapping commentary audio clips, which are indexed to trigger positions of said experiential data stream that cause a duration of the two or more commentary audio clips to overlap, by: determining an ordering for presenting the two or more commentary audio clips sequentially; and reducing a playback vector of the experiential data stream, when presenting a portion of the experiential data stream that corresponds to the two or more commentary audio clips, such that the two or more commentary audio clips are presented sequentially during the presentation of the corresponding portion of the experiential data stream, wherein a playback vector includes a direction and a velocity for presenting the experiential data stream.