Patent ID: 8072479

Claim:
A method of teleconferencing in an environment of a virtual location between a first participant at a first location and a second participant at a second location, comprising: processing a first plurality of user perspective modification data of a first perspective of the environment of the virtual location experienced by the first participant and a first encoded feature data from the second participant to generate a first virtual representation of the second participant in the environment of the virtual location from the perspective of the first participant; processing a second plurality of user perspective modification data of a second perspective of an environment of the virtual location experienced by the second participant and a second encoded feature data from the first participant to generate a second virtual representation of the first participant in the environment of the virtual location from the perspective of the second participant; displaying the first virtual representation of the second participant in the virtual location of the teleconference to the first participant at the first location; and displaying the second virtual representation of the first participant in the virtual location of the teleconference to the second participant at the second location.