Multi-view video streaming with fast and smooth view switch

A method comprising:

• streaming first video content from a server to a client application using a network link, wherein the server stores video content obtained from multiple camera views and the streamed first video content corresponds to a first camera view;
• receiving a request at the server from the client application to stream second video content corresponding to a second camera view;
• and
• generating a video special effect at the client application by streaming video content corresponding to one or more camera views intermediate to the first and second camera views via the network link when the video content streamed is changed from the first video content to the second video content in response to the received request.

A video system comprising:

• a video frame matrix buffer configured to store video content obtained from multiple camera views, wherein the video frame matrix buffer includes a first matrix dimension corresponding to a specified camera view and a second matrix dimension corresponding to time steps associated with a video frame sampling rate;
• a streaming server including one or more streaming service instances configured to stream video content to one or more client applications;
• a command parser component configured to receive a request from a client application to change a camera view of video content streamed to the client application;
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• a frame feeder component configured to access video content of the video frame matrix buffer, including to:
• access first video content of the video matrix buffer corresponding to a first camera view and provide the first video content to a streaming service instance of the streaming server;
• access, in response to a command from the command parser to stream second video content corresponding to a second camera view, intermediate video content corresponding to one or more camera views intermediate to the first and second camera views;
• and
• access the second video content and provide the intermediate video content and the second intermediate video to the streaming service instance.