Team Collaboration Mixing Immersive Video Conferencing With Shared Virtual 3D Objects

This paper presents a novel approach on a joint team collaboration system. It combines two fields of applications that have been developed separately in the past: collaborative virtual environments and video-based teleconferencing. For this purpose technologies from both areas have been integrated to a common test platform. After a specific description of the initial technology branches, the paper mainly focuses on the conceptual work for merging them to a novel virtual team user environment.