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On-site meetings in office environments often involve conventional online meeting platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet that are widely used in real meeting rooms and provide functionality and visualization simple enough to support typical business meetings. However, because such meeting platforms usually have the same functions, meeting attendees are compelled to use nearly the same functions and manners even if their purposes differ. By contrast, conventional online meeting systems take off-site meetings less into account. Therefore, to solve those conventional limitations and realize online off-site meetings in nature, we have designed BlueSkype, a natural environment in a shared virtual 3D world. Therein, meeting attendees are represented by 3D avatars that can move around the 3D world freely, communicate with each other, and interact.
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Nakashima, R. et al. (2022). BlueSkype: A Shared Virtual 3D World for Off-Site Meetings in Nature. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2022 Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06394-7_15
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