Patent ID: 8429704

Claim:
A device for presenting and participating multi-dimensional realtime participant experiences, the device comprising: a content player presenting a streaming content received from a content distribution network; a user interface operative to receive an input from a user of the device; and an experience agent operative to receive one or more live realtime participant experiences transmitted from one or more realtime participant experience engines via a low-latency protocol and to present the live realtime participant experiences; wherein the low-latency protocol to transmit the realtime participant experience comprises steps of: dividing the realtime participant experience into a plurality of regions, wherein the realtime participant experience includes full-motion video, wherein the full-motion video is enclosed within one of the plurality of regions; and converting each portion of the realtime participant experience associated with each region into at least one of picture codec data and pass-through data; and wherein the experience agent is operative to receive and combine the one or more realtime participant experiences into a single live stream.