Bel Interactive
These examples are from a strand of work aimed at establishing a media-rich framework for storytelling. We were interested in exploring the notion of telepresence and wanted to create a "spaceship" which would allow us to develop a spatial navigation analogy. We decided it should be unambitious and quirky, like a 23rdC caravan, complete with naff interior design.
RealSpace
This player plug-in enabled one to use JPEGs as panoramas and provided an alternative to Apple's Quicktime as a means of delivery. Not only did it handle clickable hotspots but it also handled VRML 1.0 objects and statements - usefully, movies and animated GIFs could be used as textures, giving life to otherwise rather static scenes. We were going to make much use of this, but RealSpace became MGI, the plugin was rewritten in Java, MGI became Live Picture and somewhere along the line, the VRML support in this neat plugin was dropped. What remains is a Java applet panorama viewer.
Helm - panorama from the helm, clicking on the hotspot lead back to this page.
Onboard - panorama from the cabin, hotspot leads back to this page.
Earth at night - not strictly part of the Bel EPA canon but impressive nevertheless.
Earth in daylight - as above, but with the main light on.