Every year businessmen/women fly all around the world to be in the same workplace as those they are doing business with. We spend thousands of dollars and time on flights across the globe (not to mention add carbon footprints) for something we can replicate here.

CAVE is the work place that allows you keep in touch with others across the other side of the world, without moving from your seat. This Virtual environment promises to bring us a global boardroom.

The Cave Automated Virtual Environment was made in the 1990’s and works by back-projecting stereoscopic images into the walls and floor of a room. The program is designed so that you have to wear special glasses to be able to see the 3D images and you must also carry a wand to track your movements.

Doing this will enable visitors to also immerse themselves in the virtual environment and, in theory, interact with other CAVE participants across the world, as though they were physically in the same workplace.

This same immersive technology is being adapted to car manufacturing, architecture, astronomy, and even archaeology. The technology remains expensive at the moment ( CAVE at University College in London about $1, 962, 000) but there are advances in processing and graphics that means the use of this technology could be in workplaces closer than originally thought.