Graphical object-oriented multimedia application development: technology and market trends

Summary form only given. This presentation focuses on technology and market trends that are shaping the landscape for the next generation of multimedia applications and titles. These trends include: low cost multimedia PCs are becoming ubiquitous and are forming a huge installed base of multimedia-capable systems in businesses and homes; the internet has rapidly become the medium of choice for deploying dynamic multimedia applications, yet it presents an entirely new set of challenges for multimedia developers; a new generation of object oriented tools is enabling new classes of dynamic, interactive, networked multimedia applications; visual object-oriented tools are fundamentally different than language or code-based OO tools and they enable creativity rather than programming considerations alone to drive the development process; and constant advances in base multimedia technologies such as 3D require development technologies that are based on an open object model for easy extensibility.