Speaker
Assistance --
The Future of Multimedia in the Corporate World
Speaker assistance is already prevalent in the corporate world but it is definitely not at its best. Advancements are being made every day to enhance presentations and speeches and they are coming out of the multimedia world. The technology that is use today is simply web design and CD ROM development to provide speakers with some flashy pictures, video and sound to help them out. The future of speaker assistance is far beyond a few flashy images though. The Speaker will soon be able to provide virtual environments to present their topics in. Remember Star Wars?? Do you think that the film makers who made the movies didn't honestly believe that holographic images would be a definite possibility in the future. In this interview, Mr. Hologram himself will explain what he believes is the way the multimedia aspect of speaker support is going to go.
Interviewer: Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today, I hope you can answer a few questions for me here today.
Mar Hologram: Thanx for having me. Interviewer: It is now 1999 and heading face first into the millennium. I have yet to see any flying cars or spacely's sprockets but I have noticed a rapid change in our technology and the way our world is working with it. What have you noticed about the way our technology is changing with the world?
Mr. Hologram: Well, It's not that the technology is changing with the world, the world is actually changing with the technology. People are after making money and the way they are getting their money is by networking with other corporations.
Interviewer: Why do corporations need multimedia to help them network with others?
Mr. Hologram: If a company is about to dish out millions of dollars for something, they want to know exactly what they are going to get. Right now, companies are presenting their proposals in fairly exciting ways but I feel that the accuracy of their presentations might not be up to par.
Interviewer: What do you mean by the accuracy of the presentation?
Mr. Hologram: I'll give you an example, An oil company wants to sell a few horizontal wells to a company who has never dealt with horizontal wells before. If they come into a presentation and listen to a speil and glance at a few charts and see a couple of pictures, they're not going to be 100% informed. Maybe in theory but what if we could show them everything?
Interviewer: How do you propose that the multimedia industry do something like that?
Mr. Hologram: Holograms of course! We will provide the people with a virtual environment where we can bring them to the actual site of the well, or construction site or airplane cockpit or virtually anywhere!
Interviewer: That sure sounds neat but Do you honestly think it will be able to work?
Mr. Hologram: I KNOW it will work. (evil Laugh)
Wade Buehler and Hope Hosking are students of the multimedia program at SAIT and are both HUGE fans of Star Wars!
