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When working collaboratively with others, it is often difficult to
bring existing applications into the collaboration process. In this
paper, an approach is shown how to enable different applications
to work collaboratively. It enables a user to do three things: First,
the ability to work collaboratively with the application of choice,
selecting those applications that fit the need of the scenario best,
and the user is comfortable to employ. Second, the user can
work in the environment he chooses, even if the application is
not specifically designed for this environment like Virtual Reality
Environments or mobile devices. Third, the technology presented
makes it possible to mesh applications to gain new functionalities
not found in the original applications by connecting those applications
and making them interoperable. Taking a Virtual Reality
Environment and a standard office application, the use and fitness
of this approach is shown. It should be specifically noted
that the work underlying this paper is not specifically on multimodal
usage of Virtual Environments, although it is used that way
here, but rather showing a concept of meshing application capabilities
to implement “Meta-Applications” that offer functionality
beyond their original design.
