Brion,
I think Gilles is working on 3D support for MultimediaViewer, if not
panoramic/spherical viewing, then at least thumbnailing them in a way that
makes sense. He can probably explain that more than I can, but I'd bet you
could hook into the same system and add more complex support.
I haven't looked at the annotation system JS yet, but maybe we (I) could
pull that into an extension short-term. I was thinking of doing that to
HotCat first (mainly because I was so deeply offended that I read it still
supports MediaWiki 1.15), but having annotations available for every
MediaWiki instance would be a cool thing.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:07 AM Hay (Husky) <hus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like it! Seems like a perfect idea to prototype at a hackathon!
>
> In general, i think it's a shame that virtually all content on
> Wikipedia is text and images. We have so many opportunities to make
> interactive datavisualisations, videos, etcetera.
>
> -- Hay
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > At Wikimedia Conference in Berlin I met with Felix from Wikimedia Ghana,
> who
> > is super interested in getting more immersive media available such as
> > 360-degree panoramic photos ("photo spheres"); I showed him the tool labs
> > widget using panellum to do WebGL spherical photo viewing -- see
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70719#2204864 -- and he was very
> excited
> > to see that it's something we could probably work out how to integrate in
> > the nearish term.
> >
> >
> > That got me thinking more generally about new media types (video, panos,
> > stereoscopic photos/videos/panos, 3D models, interactive diagrams, etc)
> and
> > how we can extend them to support annotations and linking in a way that
> > could create immersive visual experiences with the same kind of rich
> > information and interlinking that Wikipedia is famous for in the world of
> > text articles.
> >
> > Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: "Epic saga: immersive hypermedia (Myst
> for
> > Wikipedia)"
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526
> >
> > I would be real interested to hear y'all's ideas on medium to long term
> > feasibility and desirability of this sort of system, and what we can pull
> > more directly into the short term.
> >
> > For instance I would love to get the panoramic / spherical viewers
> > integrated in MMV, which is much easier than figuring out how to do
> > clickable annotations in 3d environment. ;)
> >
> >
> > Medium term, I would also love to see us look at the annotation system
> > that's on Commons done in site JS, and see if we can build a
> > future-extensible system that's more integrated into the wiki and can be
> > used in MMV.
> >
> > Longer term, I think it'll just be nice to have these kinds of long-term
> > goals to work towards.
> >
> > Thoughts? Ideas? Am I crazy, or just crazy enough? ;)
> >
> > -- brion
> >
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