Labels:text | human face | newspaper | man | person | clothing | news | screenshot OCR: A Magazine of the Digital Age W elcome to the pilot issue of Virtual World, written word create an impact that no print publication the world's first virtual magazine. The ad- can ever hope to rival. vent of multimedia has unlocked new As you leaf through Virtual World, you will notice dimensions of creativity-for publishers that it's really easy to find your way about. There are and advertisers alike. Virtual World represents an neither menus nor buttons to figure out; the controls, exercise to fuse the various which we've kept to a mini- elements of multimedia into mum, are intuitive and ap- a coherent whole that retains the structure and look of the pear only when they should. After all, we reckon you'd print medium yet incorporates rather spend your time read- the expressive power of ing, viewing and listening sound, video and animation. For this pilot issue, we've than navigating, navigating and navigating. selected a wide range of This disk is the result of topics that provide but a glimpse of the endless ways Dr Christopher Chia 18 months of research and development on a new form of presenting news and fea- Director of electronic publishing tech- ture stories in the electronic Information Technology Institute nology-we call it "virtual medium. Video clips that Singapore pubishing" that harnesses show you the flying display the three mediums of tele- from an air show ... an artist vision, rado and the printed talking about his life's work ... the melody of new-age word. music ... animated charts and graphics-all these, and more, you'll find in the pages that follow. The technology that brought about Virtual World was developed from scratch in Singapore by an alli- Whether they serve to illustrate a point, amplify a ance that pools the respective expertise and experi- statement, demonstrate a procedure or set a mood, ence of a publisher, a software developer and a muti- these audio-visual enhancements together with the media producer. Because of the technical challenges
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