I like all this a lot!
On Apr 25, 2016 16:22, "Mark Holmquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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) <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Multimedia mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Multimedia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >
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