In the background is the console of an SGI Onyx VTX driving the display. The CAVE environment has been designed at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The CAVE projects stereoscopic images on the walls of a cube, large enough for several people to stand inside. Screen based virtual environments 3D stereoscopic pictures can also be generated on an ordinary workstation screen. This can be combined with head-tracking to give the ability to look around objects.
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.