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Collaborative Virtual Environments provide a place to meet for co-workers who are physically distributed from each other. The presentation of the environment may be a simple textual interface or it may be a sophisticated multimedia interface involving video conferencing, electronic white-boards and so on. In our work we are interested in virtual reality as the medium of communication. This means that co-workers meet in a 3- dimensional, virtual world and are visible to each other as figures, or avatars, in that world. The world itself may have scenery and devices that represent some model of a real-world office. Now representing a virtual office is an interesting first step but it does not exploit the full potential of virtual reality. The true power of virtual reality lies in combining the real and the abstract. Thus in our worlds we wish the users to inhabit a landscape that is created from some set of information that they share as a working group.
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England, D. (1999). Visualisation of Data Landscapes for Collaborative Virtual Environments. In: Paton, R., Neilson, I. (eds) Visual Representations and Interpretations. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0563-3_19
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