new company? sounds great! keep us updated how it goes!!
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, santiago pereson wrote:
> ... building the oudeis ship (name by MonikaW ;>)
>
it was funny as I was reading through this mail, because I was thinking
of a website I have tested last summer:
2 Students at IGW Vienna made a website for Sun - I don't know if it was
only a university project or if it turned into a bigger thing,
anyway it was about a website introducing java - well and I was a
testperson for it
guess what they used for it as a metaphor:
a ship with a whole crew helping you to navigate through the site
so now the story is not over yet:
who was/is one of the tow programmer?
gupi, one of oudeis' founder and the creator of the oudeis logo
I just wanted to tell you this in case we want to come back to them ...
>
> - 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?).
so the oudeis ship would be additional to the webstages - or is this just
a technical additional here?
I definetly think that people need help to navigate trough our webstage
(which you have wonderful defined, santiago! tnx - I will see, if I can
think of additions)
but as you wrote it down, it is mainly a bunch of windows they can
choose?
wouldn't an additional applet slow it down even more?
has anybody looked at the websites of the italian theater group nina sent
the other day?
those are really impressive! even though I came to late for the show, i
had the feeling I was "coming into a theater"
should we give our audience the impression to enter a ship? to "go on a
trip" with us, exploring oudeis??
Mon
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Monika Wunderer wunderer@oudeis.org
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