QuickTime Virtual Reality allows the viewer to rotate a picture for viewing from different angles. Some QTVR movies are 180 or 360 degree panoramamic views. Another example of QTVR is a 360 degree view of the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda. On the main page, click on View QVTR and select Rotunda. The Snappy camera and software are used to shoot the picture and transfer the file via ftp.
Live cams provide another dimension to the Web.
One of the most interesting live cam examples was the Peregrine Falcon Hatching sponsored by the Ohio Division of Wildlife. You could watch the baby chicks hatch and then learn to fly. This is an example of the use of midi files on the Web. These digital musical sequences are produced on a keyboard attached to a computer. Midi files are popular because they can be compressed to very small files thus taking very little bandwidth on the Internet.