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Foil 54 T3: New Commercial Conferencing Developments (Continued)

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Plug-ins technology in Netscape Navigator 2.0 available for Macintosh and Windows -Inline support for a huge range of Live Objects - delivery of rich multimedia content through Web
Unix implementation will be available soon
  • Lightning Strike by Infinet Op - optimized wavelet image codec
  • Real Audio by Progressive Networks - live and on-demand real-time audio over 14.4 Kbps or faster connections
  • VDOLive by VDOnet - TrueSpeech and wavelets; delivery over 28.8 Kbps
  • WebFX by PaperSoftware - 3D VRML platform that enables capability to fly through VRML worlds and run VRML applications written in Java
  • CoolTalk and CoolView by InSoft - allows users to talk to and see each other, share graphics in real time over the Net; includes data collaboration; compatible with IICE - InSoft Internet Collaborative Environment
We limited ourselves to observe the new products and technologies developed and compatible with Netscape products as we expect to "just" integrate commercial "plug-ins" and not develop our own "solution" for conferencing

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