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June 1997 / Bits / Future Watch

Video Marries Hypertext

A new standard from MPEG will bring Web-like interactivity to sound and motion. The nascent MPEG-4 standard will combine sound and motion with hyperlinks, allowing for a new generation of interactive a pplications that let you point and click through a series of linked text, audio, and video objects.

Whereas today's Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is used to define interactive 2-D and 3-D environments, MPEG-4 adds video to the mix. With MPEG-4, you can click on part of a video (e.g., an engine part) and go to linked explanatory text for more information. MPEG-4 could be used for interactive training, education, virtual business meetings, and other types of interactive applications.

MPEG hopes to create an international draft standard and then final approval sometime in 1998. Beyond th at time frame is MPEG-7, which will specify a standard for describing the information needed by multimedia search engines, so that Web surfers will be able to better search for audio and video content.

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