Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for interacting with and enabling access to novel types of content through the rapid content switching in media assets featuring multiple content streams. For example, in media assets featuring multiple content streams, each content stream may represent an independent view of a scene in a media asset. During playback of the media asset, a user may only view content from only one of the multiple content streams. The user may then switch between the different content streams to view different angles, instances, versions, etc. of the scene.

Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed including multiple Image Acquisition Devices (IAD), such as cameras, simultaneously, consecutively, or independently filming a scene, each IAD having a known position with respect to each of the other IADs. Each image data stream obtained from each IAD may be uniquely identified, by the position of the IAD or by a unique identifier, to allow selective real-time display and/or playback of each individual image data stream under the control of a user. Depending on the position of an IAD, the image data stream collected by the IAD represents a corresponding viewing angle to the user. Thus, the user may dynamically select a different viewing angle for the same scene by selecting a corresponding image stream during real-time viewing and/or playback. In various embodiments, multiple image streams of the same scene may be selected and viewed simultaneously to provide a 3-Dimensional effect or other visual effects.