The server 404 receives the image data 708 and the image data 710. The server 404 compares 712 the image data 708 and the image data 710. If the image data 708 and the image data 710 match, the server 404 authenticates 418 the second mobile device 408, opens 420 a communication channel between the client device 406 and the second mobile device 408, and performs any remaining operations as described above with reference to FIG. 4.

As an illustrative use case, the system 700 may be used in a hybrid virtual media event where a reporter is at a different location than the interviewees who have no relation to each other, such as athletes at the Olympics. In this example, the first mobile device 402 may belong to a first interviewee, the client device 406 may belong to the reporter, and the second mobile device 408 may belong to a second interviewee. In this example, the reporter is conducting an interview of the first interviewee via the RTCS 410. During the interview, the first mobile device 402 of the first interviewee displays a code that can be scanned by the second mobile device 408 of the second interviewee, and the second mobile device 408 displays a code that can be scanned by the first mobile device 402 of the first interviewee. Both interviewees can scan the codes from the others' devices using their respective mobile devices to transfer the RTCS 410 between the first mobile device 402 and the client device 406 such that it continues as the RTCS 422 between the client device 406 and the second mobile device 408. In this way, the interview with the reporter can be seamlessly switched from the first interviewee to the second interviewee.