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Here we investigate the unique advantages of our proposed Virtual Spac
e Teleconferencing System (VST) in the area of multimedia teleconferen
cing, with emphasis to facial emotion transmission and recognition. Sp
ecially, we show that this concept can be used in a unique way of comm
unication in which the emotions of the local participant are transmitt
ed to the remote party with higher recognition rate by enhancing the e
motions using some intelligence processing in between the local and th
e remote participants. In other words, we can show that this kind of e
motion enhanced teleconferencing systems can supersede face to face me
etings, by effectively alleviating the barriers in recognizing emotion
s between different nations. Also in this paper we show that it is a b
etter alternative to the blurred or mosaiced facial images that one ca
n find in some television interviews with people who are not willing t
o be exposed in public.