On Friday, Sculley was applauded at Internet World as he outlined plans that his company, Live Picture Corp., has for delivering low-bandwidth multimedia over the Internet. Most of it is text-based.
Multimedia is like decorations today on the Web.
The technology he showed off garnered spontaneous applause more than once. If some of these ideas sound familiar, it's because the people who brought the first wave of this technology to market are now part of Live Picture. In January the company merged with RealSpace, which was founded by Eric Chen, the inventor of Apple's QuickTime VR, a pioneering virtual reality application. Now incorporated into Live Picture's product line as PhotoVista, RealSpace's technology takes advantage of VRML to create a QTVR-like experience using extremely low bandwidth. FlashPix is a way of letting users view extremely high resolution images on the Web or another network.