Virtually Meeting Five-Year Vision/Narrative

Abstract

Virtual meetings work pretty well today, using a combination of audiobridges, Web casting, and videoconferencing. But there are still a lot of inconveniences, minor annoyances, and technical limitations. If we look ahead several years, how might the virtual meeting experience be improved? This chapter looks at a possible virtual meeting scenario in the year 2010, where we look at the experiences of various participants in a virtual meeting. All of the technologies that make the following narrative possible are available to some extent today. The meeting is a staff meeting with 16 participants: