3D interactivity
Posted on January 25, 2007 by Melissa Worden
What if future interactive multimedia projects we create became a 3D experience? What if they took a form where you could physically interact with the video you’re watching or move around the interactive graphic in front of you?
Well, we may have just taken one step closer to this becoming a reality with Nintendo’s new Wii News Channel debuting on Saturday, CNN reports. Consoles with an Internet connection will receive AP news headlines and photos.
Not far behind: Multimedia
“The AP has a two-year contract to provide news and photos to Nintendo, and would like to provide multimedia in the future, said Jane Seagrave, vice president of new media markets for the New York-based news cooperative.”
Are they referring to interactive graphics? Imagine the controller gamers use to swing a bat in a video baseball game becomes the controller that lets readers interact with the multimedia on your site. Now THAT would be cool.
I don’t know what the AP envisions, but I sure hope someone takes the advantage of this opportunity to use the game for something more than a game and to turn interactive graphics and multimedia into something truly interactive.
Actually, they have to for this to work, I think. After playing an interactive game, reading a 2D Web page just ain’t gonna cut it.
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Unfortunately, the Wii News Channel doesn’t feature any of the AP’s multimedia (yet). Just stories and a few photos.
I just published a blog entry about what newspapers can learn from the News Channel — namely, they need to create a better user interface on their Web sites, which is what the Wii does best.
Utimately, its just an RSS from the AP with fancy graphics. :)