Virtual environment interactivity for video communications participants

1. A method comprising:

providing a video conference session in a virtual environment;

providing a digital representation of a video conference participant m the virtual environment;

providing a video stream of the virtual environment from the viewpoint of the digital representation within the virtual environment;

providing an interactive view of the virtual environment;

receiving user input based on one or more selections of virtual environment locations displayed with an instance of the interactive view of the virtual environment;

moving the digital representation of the video conference participant to a new location in the virtual environment based on the received user input; and

updating the video stream to display the virtual environment from the new location.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual environment comprises a virtual reality (VR) environment.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the virtual environment comprises an augmented reality (AR) environment comprising one or more AR holograms.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the digital representation of the video conference participant comprises a video of the video conference participant.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video stream and interactive view are simultaneously updated based on changes in the virtual environment.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing a third person view of the digital representation of the video conference participant in the interactive view at the new location.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the video stream of the virtual environment and the interactive view of the virtual environment comprises:

initiating generation of a concurrent display, for the video conference participant, of the video stream of the virtual environment and the instance of the interactive view of the virtual environment.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more selections of virtual environment locations displayed within the instance of the interactive view of the virtual environment further comprise:

selection of a facing direction for the digital representation corresponding to an updated viewpoint at the new location.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores executable program instructions that when executed by one or more computing devices configure the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

providing a video conference session in a virtual environment;

providing a digital representation of a video conference participant m the virtual environment;

providing a video stream of the virtual environment from the viewpoint of the digital representation within the virtual environment;

providing an interactive view of the virtual environment;

receiving user input based on one or more selections of virtual environment locations displayed with an instance of the interactive view of the virtual environment;

moving the digital representation of the video conference participant to a new location in the virtual environment based on the received user input; and

updating the video stream to display the virtual environment from the new location.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the virtual environment comprises a VR environment.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the virtual environment comprises an AR environment comprising one or more AR holograms.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the digital representation of the video conference participant comprises a video of the video conference participant.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the video stream and interactive view are simultaneously updated based on changes in the virtual environment.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the executable program instructions further configure the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

providing a third person view of the digital representation of the video conference participant in the interactive view at the new location.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the interactive view enables selecting the new location.

16. A system comprising one or more processors configured to perform the operations of:

providing a video conference session in a virtual environment;

providing a digital representation of a video conference participant m the virtual environment;

providing a video stream of the virtual environment from the viewpoint of the digital representation within the virtual environment;

providing an interactive view of the virtual environment;

receiving user input based on one or more selections of virtual environment locations displayed with an instance of the interactive view of the virtual environment;

moving the digital representation of the video conference participant to a new location in the virtual environment based on the received user input; and

updating the video stream to display the virtual environment from the new location.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the digital representation of the video conference participant comprises a video of the video conference participant.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the video stream and interactive view are simultaneously updated based on changes in the virtual environment.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the processors are further configured to perform the operations of:

providing a third person view of the digital representation of the video conference participant in the interactive view at the new location.

20. The system of claim 16 , wherein the video conference session receives communications from the virtual environment via an SDK.