- if the audience uses a browser to look at the webstage, we'll have a
number of very annoying limitations (i.e. they're slow, people will have to
get plug-ins, interaction is limited to click-and-wait-for-5-minutes, some
plugins only work in Windoze or MacOS and not in other operating systems,
etc).
- we still don't have any idea of how this 'webstage' should look like,
besides knowing that it should have the choros control box somewhere on it,
and that it should produce some kind of audio.
so, i realized we can solve the thing in a better way by...
... building the oudeis ship (name by MonikaW ;>)
- the oudeis ship should be an application
(a program, a separate entity from browsers, telnet clients, etc.)
- it should look and behave like a standard application for the OS it is
running on
(so everybody knows how to use it)
- it can be developed in Java.
(but the final thing would be a full application, not an applet)
- it should have some user feedback telling him what he can do with each
part of
it, 'explaining' a bit what's happening and will happen.
(like the texts some programs put on a bar on the bottom of the screen)
- it should have different windows for different things, so the user can choose
what he wants to do.
(i.e. a window for some kind of general navigation, where you can see
the oudeis performance as a whole and choose different points of
view, one for the stage, one for the MOO, another for the choros,
another for some net feedback, another with the text, another for the
sound control, etc.)
- it should use it's own protocol, together with RealAudio or something
like it.
(so we don't have to 'invent' things on existing protocols, like
trying to use ShockWave to send data from client to server or
trying to use a RealAudio live stream in sync with other stuff)
- it should provide most of the graphics itself, rather than taking them from
the net.
(so you don't have to wait for hours for the actor to move an inch).
- should be able to show graphics from the net as well
(somenody said webcam?)
well... this are some of the ideas that have been running thru my mind
lately. i know Aaron and Christian can develop this thing (if time alows),
and would be glad to help in designing and maybe programming some of it
(i'm already studying Java ;> ). i know sofia and silvina here will help
with the graphic design and the idea team can build the concepts (what do
we want them to look at?).
i'll send another mail with some things i would put into it.
best,
santiago
music is dressed silence
mailto:jaco@overnet.com.ar
http://www.geocities.com/~yaco