Introduction to Computer Science, 2nd Edition

Chapter 15

Multimedia

CHAPTER OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Multimedia: Definition
• Building Blocks of Multimedia
• Multimedia System
• Multimedia Applications
• Virtual Reality

15.1 INTRODUCTION

The changing face of technology has taken mankind into an entirely new era, the ‘information age’, and the ability of state-of-the-art electronic tools to gather, refine and shift data have opened new vistas for data presentation. The presentation applications involving imaginative use of ‘multimedia’ allow for new and more powerful and personalized modes of representing data. Multimedia is the use of a combination of text, graphic and audio aids in the presentation of information. The devices such as television, computer and video recorder are multimedia devices ...