A method comprising by one or more computing systems of a virtual-room networking system, receiving, from a client computing device, a request to access a remote client; by the one or more computing systems of the virtual-room networking system, capturing, from the remote client, content to be presented to one or more client computing devices; by the one or more computing systems of the virtual-room networking system, encoding the captured content to be presented to the one or more client computing devices, wherein the encoding processes and converts the captured content in a format to be presented to the one or more computing devices; by the one or more computing systems of the virtual-room networking system, transmitting the encoded captured content to the one or more client computing systems.