Viewport selection for hypervideo presentation

A hypervideo presentation data processing adapted for viewport selection comprising:

• a host computing system comprising at least one computer with memory and at least one processor;
• a video player executing in the memory of the host computing system;
• and,
• a viewport selection module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computing system to record end user interactions by an end user with each of different 360° hypervideos playing back in the video player, each of the hypervideos comprising an interactive video stream containing embedded, interactive anchors hyperlinking to different frames within the video stream or to external content sources so as to facilitate the navigation by an end user between portions of the video stream and other hypermedia elements both present within the video stream and also external to the video stream, each of the hypervideos comprising a multiplicity of different viewports, each of the viewports presenting a view corresponding to a unique placement of a corresponding camera acquiring the presented view, to compute from the recorded end user interactions, an end user profile for the end user specifying a particular viewport and to respond to a directive by the end user to view a new 360° hypervideo in the video player by retrieving the end user profile, identifying the particular viewport and playing back to the end user the new 360° hypervideo utilizing the particular viewport.

A computer program product for, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• playing back to an end user a multiplicity of different hypervideos, each of the hypervideos comprising an interactive video stream containing embedded, interactive anchors hyperlinking to different frames within the video stream or to external content sources so as to facilitate the navigation by an end user between portions of the video stream and other hypermedia elements both present within the video stream and also external to the video stream, each of the hypervideos comprising a multiplicity of different viewports, each of the viewports presenting a view corresponding to a unique placement of a corresponding camera acquiring the presented view;
• recording end user interactions by the end user with each of the different hypervideos;
• computing from the recorded end user interactions, an end user profile for the end user specifying a particular viewport;
• and,
• responding to a directive by the end user to view a new hypervideo by retrieving the end user profile, identifying the particular viewport and playing back to the end user the new hypervideo utilizing the particular viewport.