Method and apparatus for automatically creating mirrored views of the video feed of meeting participants in breakout rooms or conversation groups during a videoconferencing session

A mirrored gallery view is provided of a breakout room in an online meeting user interface associated with a videoconferencing session with a session view established in a videoconferencing system. The mirrored gallery view displays video feeds of meeting participants on their respective participant computers. The video feeds are camera-captured views of each of the meeting participants, The videoconferencing system creates a breakout room within the videoconferencing session for a subset of the meeting participants, thereby allowing the subset of the meeting participants to engage with one another within the breakout room during the videoconferencing session. A video processor automatically creates mirrored views of the video feed of each of the subset of meeting participants in the breakout room whose video feed in the videoconferencing session is not currently mirrored. The videoconferencing system generates instructions for a gallery view of the breakout room in the online meeting user interface using only mirrored views of the video feeds of the subset of meeting participants in the breakout room, including the mirrored views created by the video processor, and transmits instructions to display the gallery view of the breakout room in the online meeting user interface to all meeting participants in the breakout room on their respective participant computers. In this manner, all of the meeting participants in the breakout room are displayed as mirrored views of their respective video feeds. A similar process occurs with conversation groups in a virtual space view in an online meeting user interface associated with a videoconferencing session established in a videoconferencing system.