Project Number
- 122
Title
- Waxweb 2.0: Interactive 3D Cinema on the World Wide Web
Description
- Hypertext multimedia narrative for the emerging World Wide Web.
Contact
- David Blair
Affiliation
- Blair
Address
- artist1@interport.net
WWW
- http://bug.village.virginia.edu
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Waxweb 2.0 is the first interactive, intercommunicative feature film on the World Wide Web. It is also the first Internet-distributed narrative to offer real-time 3D navigation through a story."
- "Based on the feature film 'WAX or the discovery of television among the bees,' Waxweb 2.0 consists of 3000 Web pages with 25,000 hyperlinks; 85 minutes of digital video; a soundtrack in English, German, French, and Japanese; 5000 color stills; and more than 250 real-time 3D scenes filled with thousands of spatial hyperlinks. It is the first large-scale, dynamic implementation of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), the accepted standard for distributed virtual reality on the Internet."
- Users can explore this hyperfilm through sections such as SUPERSTORY, SHORT STORY narrative, SHOT BY SHOT, FRAGMENTS, and KEYWORDS. They can also add to the story with their own immediate, publicly visible hypermedia, using an authoring interface built into the site.
- "Waxweb 2.0 uses open-system tools and existing bandwidth to experimentally demonstrate a practical, globally distributed, intercommunicative, scalable, and financially independent hypernarrative server, incorporating hypertext, audio, video, and virtual reality."
Sight
- graphics workstation, VRML browser
Sound
- embedded audio
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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