Summary:

• Immersive environments allow researchres and students to better understand how macroscopic properties are controlled by phenomena at the atomistic and microstructural levels,
  

• Collaborative virtual environments will be used to created collaborative engineering design workplaces not just in CAVEs but extended to the desktop workstation as well,
  

• Java-Web development using tools such as JWave can create a distributed visual computing environment and become an integral part of the future collaborative design environment.

• Common to all the above is the inherent property that indeed the network has become the supercomputer