Many applications using both live and stored streams have been evaluated. Technologies now available on standard workstations can increase the quality and ease of visual communication within the factory and between the factory and companies around the world. With multimedia mail, text, photos, pictures, and motion video can be electronically mailed to remote locations. With real time information transmission, face to face meetings can be held between remotely located personnel within the factory. The video shows an example of how multimedia mail and computer-based conferencing can provide direct communication between a Boeing factory, its suppliers and its customers, thereby reducing communication flow time and the need for travel.
Users can draw simultaneously and have telepointers, so their gestures are visible to each other.
This video presents the evolution of collaboration media design activities at NTT Human Interface Laboratories. The Veridical User Environments project is developing a Virtual Laboratory that brings together user interface technology, computational modeling of physical and non-physical phenomena, and visualization. Virtual worlds technology provides human-computer interfaces to computational simulation and visualization systems. One challenge is in providing a means to allow people to collaborate on a computational model through its virtual worlds interface. The application is a real-time simulation of objects modeled as point masses and springs.