Several users distributed over a network can participate in a common virtual environment. It should be possible to support the cooperation within these groups. This is the goal of CSCW . A phone booth in the DIVE environment, created by Emmanuel Fr con . Audio communication is natural, immediate and hands off.
Video communication gives facial expressions of participants.
Teleconferencing in Virtual Environments Ordinary teleconferences suffer from a lack of spatial cues. The environment is embellished with texture maps and local lighting models. Shared artifacts Applications can be represented in the virtual environment and used concurrently or alternatingly by the participants. Two virtual bodies in a DIVE model of the atrium at Electrum. Between them stands a whiteboard application on which all participants can draw.