Examples of how these modalities are put to use includes:

1. Video teleconferencing
2. Distributed lectures for higher education
3. Tele-medicine
4. Co-operative work environments
5. Searching in (very) large video and image databases for target visual objects
6. “Augmented’ reality: placing real-appearing computer graphics and video objects into scenes
7. Including audio cues for where video-conference participants are located 
8. Building searchable features into new video and enabling very high- to low-bit-rate use of new, scalable multimedia products 
9. Building “inverse-Hollywood” applications that can recreate the process by which a video was made 
10. Using voice-recognition to build an interactive environment, say kitchen-wall web browser