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Subject:Re: what's the current trend? From:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> To:Sean Brierley <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerberscientific -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:44:31 -0700
Have you watched TED talks or Lynda.com ? They both have a live transcript
where you can click the text in transcript to jump to the section of the
video.
As I said, I'm not a purist. I believe in using video as part of my
information experience palette. And I'm not alone. Techsmith, Adobe, and
others are using video almost more than text.
For hardware, I am especially fond of the SAP-Vuzix demo. That was more
an example of JIT customer service, but could easily integrate augmented
reality into hardware instructions.
And people don't care too much about pro level qualityâthey just want it to
give the information they need, with enough clarity to follow along.
-Tony
On Monday, 19 October 2015, Sean Brierley <
sean -dot- brierley -at- gerberscientific -dot- com> wrote:
> Some thoughts against video.
>
> - It's difficult to make. Everyone expects broadcast quality
> - It is almost impossible to edit.
> - It is impossible to translate.
> - As a user, I must watch a video sequentially when I can just jump
> into text and read the bits I need.
>
>
> Am I off base?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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