Simulation of attendance at a live event

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing a simulation of attendance at a live event, performance or the like. The apparatus includes a wide angle video projection screen or visual display system (up to a complete sphere) upon which video images of an actual real-time event are presented to an audience. The video images are recorded by a video camera set in a fixed position at the live event. A modular structure is provided at a remote location and is designed to duplicate the viewing environment of the event such that the audience has the feel of sitting in a loge or box seats. The invention further encompasses a plurality of said modular structures at separate remote locations. The visual effect of the invention is that audience members in the modular structures, when presented with the video images of the event or performance, feel as if they are in attendance at the actual event.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.