Mixed Reality for Supporting Remote-Meetings.

Nowadays meetings are no longer physically tied to one place. Especially in knowledge work, telephone calls or Skype conferences have long since complemented classic face-to-face meetings. Various research discourses, especially computer-supported group work, have been investigating for almost three decades how distributed group work can be supported in its various forms using IT. With the increasing performance of technologies focusing on Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), new possibilities have been added that offer a high potential for supporting distributed meetings. With this prototype, we present an approach that combines AR and VR to implement a communication system with various collaboration options for the appropriate support of distributed meetings. Our prototype focuses on scenarios in which two or more people are in the same room and one or more people are absent physically, but both parties can still cooperate remotely at the same time.