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Introducing Hypervideo

Hypervideo, or interactive video, makes video an interactive experience by allowing viewers to:

• Get more information on objects of interest during video playback
• Navigate directly to specific scenes that contain objects of interest without having to watch the entire video

Asterpix enables users to easily create interactive videos and share them through websites, blogs, and email.

Hypervideo is comparable to hypertext in some respects. Hypertext makes text an interactive experience, allowing you to create and click on “hot” links to navigate a document. Hypertext has changed the way we navigate documents. For example, when we open a simple text document such as a printed book, we often look at the table of contents first and then turn to the page of interest. When we open a hypertext document, the table of contents typically comprises links to the appropriate portions of the document. Simply clicking on these links takes us to the relevant sections and subsections. Hypertext documents contain links to other hypertext documents allowing the reader to navigate large quantities of information quickly to gather what is of interest at that moment.

Analogous to hypertext, hypervideo makes video an interactive experience. Specifically, hypervideo allows users to create links from objects in a video, even as these objects move around in the scene. Viewers may then click on these “hotspot” links to navigate the video and get more information on objects of interest.