Cross-checking neared significance but did not reach it (p=0,056). This means that it occurred more in the remote collaboration condition. Pointing in a manual for a fellow participant was the only code that was statistically significant (p=0,016). Communication was categorised with a coding scheme. Two participants handled the Bomb Defusal Manual and one participant played the bomb defuser. Participants played the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes in groups of three, where participants had to defuse a virtual bomb. A between-subjects sign was employed to find the differences between a close collaboration condition, where participants could see each other, and a remote collaboration condition, where participants could not see each other but were only able to talk with each other for communication. The aim of this study was to discover nonverbal communication factors that are necessary for successful remote collaboration in diminished reality. Keep talking and nobody explodes: a qualitative study on nonverbal communication factors identified in a group problem-solving task.