The 3-D Web

Want to have a business meeting without having to pay for travel? It happens all the time, you say. How about if I add that all the participants - in virtual form - can be there around the virtual table. They can talk to each other and look at each other as they interact. It sure beats a teleconference, where you miss all the body language.

Something similar has been done with expensive teleconferencing systems in the past, where you can sit people at a meeting table, and then interact with others on a screen at the end of the room who are actually in a different room in another part of the world.

But the new 3D Web will make virtual conferencing possible for anyone with a web browser to participate. To create a 3D image of themselves and place it at the meeting table. To see and interact with the images of the others at the meeting.

Live Virtual meetings are just one aspect of the 3D Web soon to come our way. It will change the way we interact with each other, It will usher in a new Web and perhaps a new world. Read more in this article on Computerworld.