Transitioning of meeting engagement by transitioning viewing perspectives to a temporary viewing perspective showing clusters of group activity

Abstract

The disclosed techniques provide promotion of engagement by transitioning viewing perspectives to a temporary viewing perspective showing clusters of group activity. A system shows each person a view of a large virtual environment, e.g., in a stadium full of representations of meeting attendees. Each person sees the virtual environment from a point of view originating from each person's representation, e.g., a first-person avatar view. When a group activity meets one or more conditions, the system determines parameters of a temporary perspective view from a point-of-view of a virtual camera based on the positions of people in a cluster of representations. The parameters of the temporary perspective view can be selected to show a threshold number of representations found in a cluster in a virtual environment. The system can then transition the view of each member of the group from a first-person perspective to the point-of-view of the virtual camera.