Methods and Systems for Point-to-Multipoint Delivery of Independently-Controllable Interactive Media Content

A method comprising:

• generating, by an interactive media content provider system, overall data representative of an immersive virtual reality world and including a plurality of mixed-resolution content files that
• each correspond to one respective content sector of a plurality of partially overlapping content sectors that together form a view of the immersive virtual reality world corresponding to a single center point, and
• each comprise data representative of the plurality of partially overlapping content sectors in which the one respective content sector is encoded in a high resolution and in which a remainder of the content sectors are encoded in a low resolution lower than the high resolution;
• and
• concurrently providing, by the interactive media content provider system by way of a point-to-multipoint media delivery protocol, the overall data to both:
• a first media player device associated with a first user, the first media player device configured to render a first portion of the overall data within a first field of view presented on a display screen of the first media player device, the first field of view including content of a first observed area of the immersive virtual reality world to which the first user directs the first field of view, and
• a second media player device associated with a second user, the second media player device configured to render a second portion of the overall data within a second field of view presented on a display screen of the second media player device, the second field of view including content of a second observed area of the immersive virtual reality world to which the second user directs the second field of view;
• wherein the first portion of the overall data dynamically changes to continually correspond to the first observed area as the first user experiences the immersive virtual reality world, the second portion of the overall data dynamically changes to continually correspond to the second observed area as the second user experiences the immersive virtual reality world, and the first field of view and the second field of view are independently directed by the first user and the second user, respectively, such that the first portion of the overall data rendered within the first field of view includes data from a first mixed-resolution content file corresponding to a first content sector of the plurality of partially overlapping content sectors and the second portion of the overall data rendered within the second field of view includes data from a second mixed-resolution content file corresponding to a second content sector of the plurality of partially overlapping content sectors at a particular point in time.

A system comprising:

• at least one physical computing device that
• generates overall data representative of an immersive virtual reality world;
• and
• concurrently provides, by way of a point-to-multipoint media delivery protocol, the overall data to both
• a first media player device associated with a first user, the first media player device configured to render a first portion of the overall data within a first field of view presented on a display screen of the first media player device, the first field of view including content of a first observed area of the immersive virtual reality world to which the first user directs the first field of view, and
• a second media player device associated with a second user, the second media player device configured to render a second portion of the overall data within a second field of view presented on a display screen of the second media player device, the second field of view including content of a second observed area of the immersive virtual reality world to which the second user directs the second field of view;
• wherein the first portion of the overall data dynamically changes to continually correspond to the first observed area as the first user experiences the immersive virtual reality world, the second portion of the overall data dynamically changes to continually correspond to the second observed area as the second user experiences the immersive virtual reality world, and the first field of view and the second field of view are independently directed by the first user and the second user, respectively, such that the first portion of the overall data rendered within the first field of view is different from the second portion of the overall data rendered within the second field of view at a particular point in time.