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Futures

Futures. (Full version to be posted on Blackboard). Agenda. Software: HTML 5 Software: XML Hardware: New platforms Hardware: Kindle. HTML 5.

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Futures

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  1. Futures (Full version to be posted on Blackboard)

  2. Agenda • Software: HTML 5 • Software: XML • Hardware:New platforms • Hardware: Kindle

  3. HTML 5 • HTML5 improves interoperability and reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors. • Some of the new features in HTML5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. HTML5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer>, and <figure>. • The HTML5 working group includes AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and many hundreds of other vendors. • Note: HTML5 is not a W3C recommendation yet! • http://html5demos.com

  4. XML • http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~fjmaddix/xml

  5. New platforms • Special edition of ACM Crossroads bulletin

  6. Small platforms • Psion NetBook: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook • HTC Desire: • http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/review/2010/04/01/HTC-Desire/p1

  7. Kindle • Designed specifically for reading • Very high resolution display using e-ink: • Wi-Fi and 3G connections • Colour, Video, Audio?

  8. 3D • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11467352

  9. Summary • Media Technologists will have to deal with: • Small high resolution displays (OLED) • High definition video • 3D • High quality sound • New interaction modes – voice, gesture, in-air • Force feedback, datagloves

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