1. A computerized method for operating a display system, the display system having a camera, a monitor, and a processor, the method comprising: operating the camera to generate a stream of images of the user; operating the processor to detect the presence of the user in the stream of images; operating the processor to apply adaptive transformation mapping to the stream of images captured by the camera to generate modified images that appear to be captured from a different point of view of the camera's actual point of view; and, displaying the modified images on the monitor.