Method and apparatus for production of a real-time virtual concert or collaborative online event

A method for generating a collaborative concert with participants at disparate geolocations, the method comprising the steps of:

• capturing audio data at at least a first geolocation and a second geolocation;
• with a local audio processor computer at each of the first geolocation and the second geolocation, processing the audio data captured at the respective geolocations;
• establishing peer to peer connections between the local audio processor computer at each of the first geolocation and the second geolocation and a remote audio processing computer;
• receiving the processed audio captured at the first geolocation and the second geolocation at the remote audio processing computer as processed audio feed;
• with the remote audio processing computer, synchronizing the processed audio feed captured at the disparate geolocations;
• by remotely controlling from the remote audio processing computer, downgrading audio quality of one or more peer to peer transmissions in order to decrease transmission time to ensure that the processed audio feed remain synchronized with the remote audio processing computer;
• concurrent with the receiving of the processed audio captured at the disparate geolocations to the remote audio processing computer as the processed audio feed, receiving video data for embedding into a virtual video environment;
• eliminating jitter in the virtual video environment by remotely controlling from the remote audio processing computer to introduce a delay into the receiving of the video data for embedding into the virtual video environment;
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• combining multiple video streams and the synchronized audio into the virtual video environment.