LAUNCH DATE:
March 16, 1998.
Site is no longer available.

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES:
Project Manager and client contact. The T3 Media project team consisted of a Graphic Designer, 3 Web Integrators, a Technical Writer, and a Software Engineer.

SUMMARY:
The SoftwareVision 2 web site was a re-design and re-organization of an existing "WebStream Station," the NTT Human Interface Laboratories site for their new Web casting technology. NTT-HI wanted a site that would introduce the technology to the American audience and compete with better-known streaming media technologies such as Real Media. The design was intended to attract early adopters of cutting-edge technologies with a cool, entertainment-oriented look and feel.

T3 Media worked in conjunction with the Netyear Group, Inc. in New York to promote the streaming video technology developed by NTT-Human Interface Laboratory (NTT-HI) in Japan. The Netyear Group translated and facilitated communication with the ultimate client, NTT-HI. The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (TGSRT) contributed web cast content to the site to drive traffic. An update tool was created to enable Netyear administrators to update content on the site with submissions from users. Later, Software Vision 2.0 was used for T3 Media's exclusive Web Cast of the 1998 Tony Awards, resulting in thousands of downloads of the new product.

The Web site provided opportunities to download SVPlayer, the viewing application, and SVTransmitter, the transmission application. The site also served as an arena for users to web cast live with minimal effort. Tips on web casting as well as anecdotes about past web casts using SoftwareVision 2 technology were included, with the encouragement that users contribute their own content to these sections. T3 Media completely re-organized the site and re-wrote all content. All of the site’s Web casting capabilities also had to be programmed in PERL with different functionality that found on the existing Japanese site.

TECHNOLOGIES USED:

• UNIX
• SVPlayer, SVTransmitter, SVServer, SVProxy
• Windows Netmeeting
• PERL
• Flat text file database