How Sessions work with Virtual Events

For Virtual Events powered by PheedLoop, sessions are the primary means of delivering content to online attendees. Sessions are hosted either through pre-recorded video content, or live via Meet & Stream, Zoom, or another third-party videoconferencing application. 

Attendees will be able to access sessions in the Sessions page of the Virtual Portal. 

Regardless of how you decide to host your session in the Virtual Portal, both sessions will appear as if live to the attendee. For live sessions, this is as simple as turning on your session conference from your application and presenting. For pre-recorded videos, you can either allow player controls and allow attendees to watch the stream at their own pace, or create a simulive experience and have the pre-recorded video play as if it is happening live.

What is Simulive?

Please note, this applies only to pre-recorded videos. If your event will be livestreamed via Zoom or another third-party streaming service, you can disregard this information.

Simulive, short for “simulated live,” refers to hosting a pre-recorded video as if it were live to the audience. In PheedLoop, any videos uploaded to sessions in PheedLoop comes with Simulive capabilities. If an attendee joins late, the video will play from the session’s current timestamp rather than from the beginning.

If the video is shorter than the session time then the remaining time will show a blank screen. Because of this, we recommend uploading a video that matches the session’s duration length.

The Enable Player Controls checkbox allows the attendee to fast forward or go to different timestamps in the video, effectively undermining the simulive experience.

We’ll explore the setup process for live streaming and pre-recorded content in more detail later in this step.