ooblick@eddie.MIT.EDU (Mikki Barry) (11/17/87)
In article <1306@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C.Esh) writes: >Sorry, but those drivers are for LaserDisk Video Players. The idea is to allow use of CAV VideoDisks for instruction, information retrieval and such, with >HyperCard picking out the video sequences and playing them. This will be a >true and exciting hypertext application when it gets going. YES!!!! Is anyone out there doing any IVD work with the Mac and/or hypercard? My company does IVD for training purposes, and we would love to talk with anyone who is currently doing this stuff for the mac. It is a wonderful possibility that has not yet been investigated enough. We would love to get together with someone and do a project just to prove that it works. What fun! Mikki Barry
dlw@hpsmtc1.UUCP (11/18/87)
Try Stanford University, apparently they were seeded with early copies of hypercard. One application was for film editing via laser disk or cd rom of some sort. I don't know what dept specifically, but hope this helps.
andrew@ems.UUCP (11/19/87)
A couple of years ago I did a project for an IVD place here in the
Minneapple using the Pioneer LD-V6000, which is one of the units supported by
Hypercard. I wrote a series of macros that allowed me to use the IBM (PC)
Macros assembler to assemble LD-V6000 programs. (Two notes here ... Yes, I
must confess to having once been an IBM programmer {MOV AX,BX ... what's
that, a punk rock band? :-)}, and yes the LD-V6000 is programmable.) The
end result of the system was a program which was sent to 3M and written
onto the LaserDisk, one of the two sound tracks. This 'Bootable' LaserDisk
can then be run standalone on the LDV, using the 10-key pad on the unit's
remote control to answer the onscreen questions. Hot Machine, but No
Reasonable User Interface! Enter HyperCard.
Imagine being able to click on a part of a Television quality picture
and branch to not just another picture, but a short film clip, in stereo!
Point an click taken to it's logical extreme. If this goes far enough, you
could be watching a John Wayne movie, and click on the Duke to bring up a
list of other movies he's done, or an autobiography, or where to get a John
Wayne T-Shirt! Boy we're rollin' now.
As far as who is doing anything with IVD, there is the Theatre Arts
Dept. of Stanford, teaching film editing by allowing students to pick and
choose clips from LaserDisk (LD) and edit them together. I was just
talking to our Mac software designer, Mike (mpp at this machine), and he
remembers Interactive Learning Technologies, out there in Cambridge, and
'Sliver Platter', somewhere out there. Look around and I will too. We
might see what I described earlier coming out of one of these places, or
another. Anybody else heard of any?
- Andrew