Hypermedia: QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 1.0 By Peter Leong & Wallace Napier

What is Hypermedia? Hypermedia is …….. “……any computer-based system that allows the interactive linking, and hence nonlinear traversal of information that is presented in multiple forms that include text, still or animated graphics, movie segments, sounds, and music.”

Traditional One-Way Computer-Based Instruction Computer Student

Hypermedia Two-Way Computer-Based Instruction Computer Student

Experiencing Virtual Reality Traditional method Wearing high-tech VR goggles With Using computer

QuickTime VR offers two types of views: n Panoramic movies –enter a space, e.g. an outdoors scene or a room n Object movies –view an object from all sides, e.g. a sculpture

How QuickTime VR works? n Use a 35 mm camera with a 15 mm lens on a tripod to shoot a series of pictures, turning the camera 30 degrees after each exposure n Digitize the images using a scanner

How do you piece together photographs to make a panorama?

QuickTime VR warps the images, maps the overlapping features and automatically stitches the images together

QuickTime VR Authoring Studio 1.0 Features: 4 Downloading images from a video camera, digital camera or scanner 4 Stitching images together into a seamless panorama movie 4 Combining object frames into an object movie 4 Linking object movies and panorama movies into multi-node VR project

Advantages of QuickTime VR Authoring Studio: 4 Simple drag & drop authoring 4 No special photographic equipment required 4 Support for object animation 4 Creates multi-node projects containing object and panorama movies

Disadvantages: 4 Time consuming 4 Relatively high initial layout costs

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