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Foil 12 Possible Uses of Digital Video in NHSE

From Possible Roles of new Web technologies in the NHSE NHSE Review -- 25 January 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Clearly digital audio and video supports the type of collaborative environments needed for consultant-enhanced use of the NHSE -- natural use by distributed computer centers as envisaged by NSF
Digital video (in fashion built to VRML 2.0) can be annotated to provide much more interactive results of scientific simulations
  • This is video equivalent of clickable 3D VRML scenes discussed earlier and is "academic" version of consumer interactive Movies where you can choose paths etc.
Digital Audio and Video is currently less than 5% of web data but eventually it will be dominant (95%) form of digital information and serving will be major Web activity.
Broad distributution requires ISDN-ATM speeds but can deliver from local WebServers as only needs Ethernet or less for each client

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