Method of using online, real-time, interactive, multiplane camera view to enhance videoconferencing platforms

A method for providing a user interface display to a participant who is viewing a videoconferencing session via a communication system that provides videoconferencing, the communication system providing a composite video stream that includes a plurality of different video layers, each video layer providing a different portion of the composite video stream, the participant having a participant computer for allowing the participant to receive the composite video stream for display on the user interface display, wherein a plurality of participants view the videoconferencing session via user interface displays of their respective participant computers, the method comprising:

• (a) generating, by videoconferencing components, a participant layer that displays video streams of the participants, the participant layer allowing for audiovisual communications among the participants;
• (b) generating, by the communication system, a foreground layer, wherein the foreground layer includes video content, and wherein the foreground layer is a video stream that occurs independent of any interactions between the participants associated with the participant layer;
• (c) generating, by the communication system, another layer other than the participant layer and the foreground layer, the other layer being:
• (i) an event layer that includes video content of the event, or
• (ii) an audience layer that includes video content;
• (d) electronically communicating the layers generated in steps (a)-(c) to the participant computer;
• and
• (e) generating, by the participant computer, the composite video stream using the layers generated in steps (a)-(c) and electronically communicated to the participant computer for display on the user interface display of the participant's participant computer who is viewing the videoconferencing session.