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That got me thinking more generally about new media types (video, panos, stereoscopic photos/videos/panos, 3D models, interactive diagrams, etc) and how we can extend them to support annotations and linking in a way that could create immersive visual experiences with the same kind of rich information and interlinking that Wikipedia is famous for in the world of text articles.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: "*Epic saga: immersive hypermedia (Myst for Wikipedia)*" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133526
I would be real interested to hear y'all's ideas on medium to long term feasibility and desirability of this sort of system, and what we can pull more directly into the short term.
For instance I would love to get the panoramic / spherical viewers integrated in MMV, which is much easier than figuring out how to do clickable annotations in 3d environment.
Medium term, I would also love to see us look at the annotation system that's on Commons done in site JS, and see if we can build a future-extensible system that's more integrated into the wiki and can be used in MMV.
Longer term, I think it'll just be nice to have these kinds of long-term goals to work towards.
Thoughts? Ideas? Am I crazy, or just crazy enough?
You proposal of a 3D environment seems quite interesting !
We could imagine a sort of Second Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life were visitors could navigate from places to places, each place containing medias about a subject.
For that we would need to have 3D object files in Commons, a much needed feature.
For a distant future, we could use an electronic nose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose to smell odors in a location and put on Commons a file that could then be used with a odors generating machine to reproduce the smell of that location
Regards.