Disclosed herein are: methods of augmented reality video communications; camera system in data communication with a display system; data structures for camera field of view, camera frame buffer, a bounding box corresponding to a desired portion of the camera field of view, and a bounding box frame buffer; the bounding box data structure includes a portion of the camera frame buffer interpolated between the bounding box data structure and the camera field of view; the bounding box frame structure is sent to the display system; data structures for a display field of view, an augmented reality video overlay corresponding to a desired portion of the display field of view, and a display frame buffer; the display buffer includes a portion of a received display frame buffer interpolated between the augmented reality video overlay and the display field of view; the display buffer data structure is shown on the display.