Devices and methods for creating a collaborative virtual session

Abstract

Disclosed are systems, including client devices and servers, and methods for creating a collaborative virtual session between two or more client devices, wherein each of the client devices is associable with a coupler agent for interfacing with a communicating entity (such as a person). A client device, in accordance with the inventive principles, comprises at least one processor and at least one memory, the memory containing instructions whereby, when executed by the processor, the client device is operable to: generate a locally instantiated virtual room; instantiate a virtual representation of a first entity associated with said client device in said locally instantiated virtual room; transmit metadata representative of the first entity to the second client device; receive metadata representative of the second entity from the second client device; and, instantiate a virtual representation of the second entity as a function of said received metadata, from a perspective of the first entity, in the locally instantiated virtual room. A server, intermediate to the client devices, can be utilized to join the client devices in the collaborative virtual session and exchange the metadata.