Abstract: Generating scenes for virtual environment of a visual entertainment program, comprising: capturing views and movements of an actor performing within the generated scenes, comprising: tracking movements of a headset camera and a plurality of motion capture markers worn by the actor within a physical volume of space; translating the movements of the headset camera into head movements of a virtual character operating within the virtual environment; translating the movements of the plurality of motion capture markers into body movements of the virtual character; generating first person point-of-view shots using the head and body movements of the virtual character; and providing the generated first person point-of-view shots to the headset camera worn by the actor.

Abstract: Methods and systems for preserving the integrity of segments of audio streams are provided. An audio playback device may receive an audio stream from an audio transmission source. The audio stream may include a plurality of segments. The segments may each include a whole or partial song, talk program, commercial, DJ chatter, news or weather report, or the like. The audio stream may be temporarily stored in a buffer that contains a contiguous portion of the audio stream from a preceding time period. The buffer may reside in memory of the audio playback device. Indicia of a selection may be received via a user interface of the audio playback device. The indicia of the selection may be associated with the segment being currently received from the audio transmission source. The segment associated with the indicia of the selection may be stored in memory of the audio playback device.