providing, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, an interface for setting parameter values to specify how a change in distance between a first element in the room and a second element in the room will update at least one property value of the second element in the room;

receiving, via the interface, user input setting the parameter values;

providing a virtual conference between plural participants within the room, the room including the first element and the second element;

updating the at least one property value of the second element based on a detected change in distance between the first element and the second element, and based on the parameter values; and

providing for updated presentation of the second element based on the updated at least one the property value,

wherein the parameter values indicate one or more property types of the second element for updating based on the change in distance, the property types including blur, brightness, contrast, saturation, red level, green level, blue level, x-axis rotation, y-axis rotation, z-axis rotation, x-axis scaling, y-axis scaling, participant audio volume, media volume, opacity, x-axis position, y-axis position, and video seek percentage.