DeepWave is aimed at anyone who uses the Internet to access or deliver audio. The application comes with a loader program that launches Winamp for the DeepWave session. You can also run DeepWave as a regular Winamp visualization plug-in. The DeepWave interface features pull-down menus for loading local and remote files, pointers to recent files, links to sample 3D content included in the download and help files. The interface also allows custom skins.
Content can be general or created for a specific piece of audio.
DeepWave is well suited for the delivery of interactive narrative that goes beyond the traditional music video. The audio can be in any format supported by Winamp. Although the audio output isn t spatialized inside the VRML environment, channel volume can be dynamically panned left or right depending on the user s position in the environment. The RoundUP was very exciting, and a bit tricky. Although installing our demo and testing it locally went smoothly, we ought to have rehearsed on the house system because that would have revealed that the house system audio was mono.