Labels:text | screenshot | font | document | number OCR: A Magazine of the Digital Age W elcome to the pilot issue of Virtual World, print publication can ever hope to rival. the world's first virtual magazine. The ad- As you leaf through Virtual World, you will notice vent of multimedia has unlocked new that it's really easy to find your way about. There dimensions of creativity-for publishers are neither menus nor buttons to figure out; the and advertisers alike. Virtual Wond represents an controls, which we've kept to a minimum, are exercise to fuse the various elements of multimedia into a coherent whole that retains intuitive and appear only when they should. After all, we reckon you'd rather spend the structure and look of the print your time reading, viewing and lis- medium yet incorporates the ex- tening than navigating, navigating pressive power of sound, video and and navigating. animation. This disk is the result of 18 For this pilot issue, we've months of research and develop- selected a wide range of topics that ment on a new form of electronic provide but a glimpse of the end- publishing technology-we call it less ways of presenting news and 'virtual publishing" that hamesses feature stories in the electronic me- the three mediums of television, dium. Video clips that show you the radio and the printed word. flying display from an air show ... an artist talking The technology that brought about Virtual World about his life's work ... the melody of new-age music was developed from scratch in Singapore by an alli- ... animated charts and graphics-all these, and ance that pools the respective expertise and experi- more, you'll find in the pages that follow. ence of a publisher, a software developer and a Whether they serve to illustrate a point, amplify multimedia producer. a statement, demonstrate a procedure or set a Because of the technical challenges posed by vir- mood, these audio-visual enhancements together with the written word create an impact that no tual publishing, this particular combination of re- sources and skills was vital-none of the partners
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