Your attendees at virtual meetings are all given a choice of avatars to represent them.
Avatars can be quite fanciful or down to earth.
Avatars are a big step beyond simple chat or videoconferencing as they efficiently embody such important aspects of human communication as gestures, proximity to the group, and emotion. The virtual worlds in which avatars can be used can be very powerful in supporting collaboration and complex work and learning processes. Virtual worlds are not merely transmissions of one real world place to another, they are new spaces that we enter, spaces that exist nowhere else but Cyberspace. Virtual Worlds and Avatars are uniquely suited to support virtual meetings, from small gatherings up to cyber-tradeshows with thousands of attendees connecting in from all over the Earth. As in a physical tradeshow, virtual exhibitions permit a large number of organizations to present their wares, offerings or interesting content to a walk-by audience.