of Networked Multimedia

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of Networked Multimedia

• Some things to look for
• Norman White

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Enabling Developments

• Bandwidth
• ISDN 128KBS (available now)
• Cable Modems 10MBs (3 million by 2000)
• Fiber 100MBs (coming soon)
• ADSL (10 Mbits to home)
• Connectivity
• WWW connection prices still falling (9/month)
• ATT, MCI etc will add on to local phone bill
• Processing speed
• Pentium PIII, AMD K6, Power Pc etc.
• Multimedia audio now standard on PCs
• 3 D video chips widely available
• Video capture now cheap
• Java
• Clearly the WWW standard, allows many new types
  of interaction

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Video

• Now just beginning to be available, soon will be
  commonplace
• New tools like Shockwave/SMIL etc. will allow
  development of WWW video presentations
• Customer will be able to pull ad content or
  companies can push it
• Live video will start to compete with cable
  channels
• Enormous education/training market

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Audio

• Stored audio already well-supported
• Live audio will start to develop nationwide
  radio competitors. (radio is currently distance
  limited..)
• Audio support for Electronic Commerce
• Internet becomes a telephone competitor for
  intercontinental calls
• Live video and audio enhance group work

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Wireless

• You will always be connected, car, boat, plane
  etc.
• Palm Pilot size devices will let you work
  anywhere
• Streaming video formats will deliver live audio
  and video (what happens to cable and network TV?)

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Virtual Reality

• Tools just starting to appear and dont really
  work yet, but....
• Promises include
• Ability to interact with 3D worlds for
• Product sales
• Games
• Education
• Scientific Research
• Art ?

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New Paradigms

• Personalization
• Sites will dynamically adapt to you and offer
  everyone different, tailored content
• Stickiness
• Use multimedia to attract and retain users (grab
  their eyeballs)
• Ubiquity
• Access to information from anywhere (wireless
  palm pilot etc.)
• Virtualization
• You can be represented in virtual worlds by
  representations of yourself (Avatars)
• Interactive
• Web users will be reacting to and creating their
  own multimedia content automatically

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Electronic Commerce

• New models are being developed for doing commerce
  in this new world
• Many problems solved conceptually but still need
  to be implemented
• Security
• Pricing and payment models
• authentication and signatures

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Data Integration

• Information on Web sites will be tightly
  integrated into the main databases of a company
• Interlinked data bases with info on users
• Dynamically queried services providing
  information needed for personalization
• New method of interacting with customers
• Deliver custom multimedia presentations,
  products,services

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Unknowns ...

• Regulatory climate
• Small changes in laws can have large impacts on
  financial viability of different types of
  businesses
• For instance,
• Internet Phone licensed or not
• Internet live video - regulated?
• What is the role of the FCC? What is the model, a
  phone company, a cable company, a radio station?
• What are the rights of creators/publishers/users
  of multimedia?
• What do you think should be the solution to
  Napster?
• EC taxed?

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The Future

• A new environment where information is
  everywhere.
• Data, data everywhere but not a bit to think
  (sorry Coleridge)
• It will be your generations task to harness this
  new medium .. All it takes is creativity and some
  skill..Good Luck!