Interactive video-based speed-dating platform and system for providing an immersive online-streaming production

A method for hosting and exhibiting an interactive speed-dating show online, featuring participants, displayed to viewers watching on viewer computers comprising:

• a server computer hosting a platform online;
• participants accessing the platform via the internet on a computer equipped with a camera and a microphone, referenced as participant computers;
• the server computer connecting the participant computers to cloud-based virtual machines;
• the server computer creating phantom participants as system agents running on the virtual machines, with a single system agent associated with each individual participant computer;
• the virtual machines opening a browser;
• the virtual machines logging into the platform on behalf of the phantom participants via the browser in a first browser tab;
• the virtual machines initiating streaming software via the browser in a second browser tab;
• wherein the streaming software is configured to capture and stream content from the first browser tab to the platform;
• the virtual machines receiving audio and video from the participants computers;
• the streaming software conveying the audio and video to viewers via the platform;
• wherein participants are matched together in pairs during one-on-one audio/visual speed-dates simultaneously;
• and
• the platform displaying live streams of all participants to all viewers via viewer computers simultaneously.