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Video-conferencing (Tele-conferencing)
With a small video camera fixed to your microcomputer, your image can be sent down the network to another user (and vice versa). 

Audio signals can also be sent using microphones and speakers. This means you can see and talk to another user.

 

Companies can set up meetings with eyeball-to-eyeball communication between people who are not in the same room, building or even country!

Pictures are a bit 'jittery' at the moment but advancing technology will no doubt improve this! A broadband connection is essential!

 

Care has to be taken about when conferencing takes place because of time differences - mid-morning in one country may be midnight in another!