New Levels of Training

As with our Interactive Training, we will make extensive use of text, photos, voice-overs and computer generated diagrams and animation along with full computer interactivity, to bring lessons to life. However, the addition of our Interactive Video techniques and software take these lessons to the next generation.

Delivery can be via CD / DVD or the Web, with content optimised accordingly. We can even integrate content from the web within CD and DVD courses enabling them to "grow".

Extending "regular" Interactive Training .

Further improving the Interactive Handouts example detailed in Interactive Training

If the presentation of the course were Captured on Video (either at the time of the presentation of the course or under controlled conditions in a studio at another time), it would be possible to add clips of each part of the presentation of the course to the relevant section of the handout. In this way, pupils can replay various parts of the course making for exceptionally effective handouts.

This acts as a very simplified version of the Advanced Video Help system that we are currently developing.

New Levels of Interaction, OLD Levels of Interaction

Anyone who has used the internet will by now be used to the way interaction with the computer influences the flow of information - they just may not be aware of it.

When navigating the internet, the information is seldom presented in a linear way. The internet is non-linear in that the information is not presented in a predetermined way, because the user jumps around from link to link.

If at some point in their non-linear navigation of the internet they encounter a video clip, then everything stops while the video plays in a linear way. i.e. the user generally stops interacting and simply sits and watches while the clip plays, then the interaction continues once the video has finished. This is similar to channel hopping on the TV, finding something you want to watch, then channel hopping again once it has finished. It's OK for TV, but the internet (and CD's / DVD's) should offer so much more.

New Levels of Interaction, NEW Levels of Interaction

By incorporating our Interactive Video methods and software within a training disc or training element of a web site, we enable the non-linear navigation to continue even while the video is playing. This means that as a video clip plays, the viewer (or more acurately, participant) interacts with the video and changes the outcome.

Examples of Interactive Video

"Virtual Driving Lessons" An excellent example of the use of Interactive Video for training purposes is the project we are currently developing. This is a series of Virtual Driving Lessons that place the learner driver (or driver wishing to improve their driving skills) in a series of real world environments complete with instruction from a real driving instructor, links to related information and lessons, and a wealth of other features.

Although the real driving instructor isn't present while the pupil is taking the "Virtual" driving lesson, the software will respond to the pupils actions and the instruction generated will be appropriate. Further to this, the video that is playing (and the synchronised animations, text and other features) will change accordingly.

For example, if during the parallel parking exercise the pupil turns the wheel the wrong way and in the real world would end up on the curb, then in the environment we have created in the Virtual Driving Lesson the videos that are playing will show their car driving up onto the curb. They will then receive instruction from the driving instructor telling them that they have gone wrong, in what way they have gone wrong and offering a hint as to how to improve. The videos will then all reset to the point just prior to their mistake, and the pupil can have another go (hopefully showing signs of improvement!).

This is achieved by shooting many hundreds of video clips to cover dozens of possibilities and then developing software to make sense of these hundreds of clips and present them to the pupil in a seamless and useable way. [more]

Virtual Tours A (relatively) simplfied development of this technique / software are the Virtual Tours that we offer. These are a direct development of our experiments with Interactive Video that enable the viewer to rotate their view of a room (or location) by upto 360 degrees and select from a number of routes (generally a list of door leading from the room). Their choice of route from their current location results in the playing of a video clip that shows what it looks like to walk through that door. Then the location on the other side of the door plays as a 360 degree video loop and they are presented with available routes from that location.

All the while, their current location is shown on a floorplan of the house (this floorplan is also clickable, enabling the user to rapidly jump to a location or room).

This enables the viewer to freely wander around the entire house (or Hotel, Tourist destination, business premises, etc) in a way that has never before been possible. [more]

How Can We Help? Contact us and tell us about your Training requirements to find out how we can greatly enhance your CD / DVD or Web based training projects by incorporating our Interactive Video techniques and software.

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Interactive Training Taking the traditional training book to the next level. We incorporate text, photos, voice-overs and computer generated diagrams and animation to bring lessons to life. This type of training is not simply a scan of a book, as we make extensive use of the interactivity available when using a computer. [more]

Advancd Video Help At Right Click Productions we are currently building upon the experience gained developing interactive video applications and web sites in order to produce advanced video help systems. This ranges from enhancing the traditional help files with interactive video through to improved error pages on web sites. [more]

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