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.

Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Consumer Video Equipment, Graphics Software Pkgs (Micro), Innovations, Video equipment, Graphics software, Video tape recorders and recording, Videocassette recorders, Videotape recording

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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.

Computer terminals, Television Sets, Interactive Terminals, Planning, Televisions, Internet, Television broadcasting, Equipment and supplies, Industrial design

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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.

Consumer Electronics, Usage, Consumer electronics industry, Sony Corp., VRML (Document markup language)

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