Webcams on the Internet: the computer as viewfinder
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People can broadcast their own video images and access others' through use of webcam(era) technology that is now reasonable priced. With only a quality camcorder, a video capture accessory, and imaging software, people can set up a 'webcam' site on the World Wide Web. The real-time sharing of images is one-step towards creating a world of high-level communication in which people can instantly travel and interact anywhere.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1996
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The Internet comes to TV, or "Honey, Please Put on Channel 2,185,932!"(New Media)
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The advent of television program delivery through the Internet presents numerous technological and sociological challenges to consumer electronics designers. They need to design products that simplify procedures for both computer-literate and non-computer literate people. They also have to be able to sustain interest in a new medium where users have the temptation to shift sites every few seconds if they get bored.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1997
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The world of Sony ... online: a virtual work in progress
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Sony's World Wide Web site, Sony Station or www.sony.com, combines marketing and entertainment in a sophisticated new way. One of the state-of-the-art features of the site is its Moving Worlds VRML 2.0 Standard, a Virtual Reality Markup Language developed in conjunction with WorldMaker and Silicon Graphics. The software gives users a three-dimensional immersion in Sony's site effects.
Publication Name: Graphis
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0017-3452
Year: 1996
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