Visual Content Modification for Distributed Story Reading

One or more computer readable storage media embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:

• receiving video data associated with a reader of an electronic story that is configured to be shared with one or more remote participants;
• enabling augmentation of the video data to generate at least one new image;
• and
• enabling the one or more remote participants to consume the augmented video data as part of the electronic story.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• at least one augmentation effect module embodied on the one or more computer readable storage media and configured, when executed by the one or more processors, to:
• receive video data associated with a reader of an electronic story that is configured to be shared with one or more remote participants;
• detect one or more facial features contained within the video data;
• augment the video data based, at least in part, on said one or more facial features;
• and
• enable the one or more remote participants to consume said augmented video data.