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

Abstract

The techniques disclosed herein provide promotion of meeting engagement by transitioning viewing perspectives to a temporary viewing perspective showing group activity. A system can show 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 generates a new virtual environment model that shows detailed view of all people in a group, without showing members of other teams that may be intermingled with the group in an original environment. The system may transition each group member's view from the first-person view to a temporary view of the newly generated model that only includes group members. The temporary view can remain until the group activity drops below a threshold.