Recreate the live experience for your attendees and have full control over the viewing experience
Typically, when you have an on-demand webinar, your registrants will view the video as part landing page. The page may be on BigMarker, or it may be on another website you control, but it is usually the same experience.
Now with the immersive experience, you can instead use the same design and features that are available in the live webinar room.
Enabling and customizing the immersive experience
Turning on the immersive experience is simple and is available as soon as your on-demand webinar is created. On the webinar dashboard, look for and click on On-Demand Viewing Experience in the left-hand navigation.
When you first get to these settings, it will be set to Embed Video on Landing Page. This will be the default experience where the video will play on the landing page. Any design and customization options will be handled within the recording player and the landing page:
When you select Launch Immersive Experience After Registering you will enable the immersive experience for your audience. You will also see some new settings appear that allow you to customize the viewing experience.
These settings are the same settings that are available when customizing the webcast views. Both webcast and modular are available, and you can customize those views further by clicking :customize layout.
If you have recorded a live webinar and converted it to on-demand, then the design that was used for the live webinar will be reused for the immersive experience. If you wish you can customize it further from here as well:
Once enabled, users will still start on your landing page, but once they register, their page will refresh and put them into the immersive experience, which will mirror the design that was configured in the dashboard settings. The video player controls and features are all still available, but now within a page that looks exactly like the live webcast attendee view:
How to configure the features inside of the immersive experience
For most of the features that you see in the immersive experience, you will still configure them as part of the recording player. This includes features such as the chat replay, polls, offers and submit a question. Once enabled, users in the immersive experience will see these features as part of the webinar room instead of inside the player as normal.
For example, here we see the Q&A feature in the immersive experience. Instead of being in the player as previously expected, it's now part of the engagement panel that live attendees see in the classic webcast:
If you choose modular, the experience would be the same, where these features become incorporated into the immersive experience instead of being a part of the player itself:
