Cy-Kill Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 What do you think of this, can Google pull it off if they decided to do hosted gaming: There?s an interesting patent application from Google (GOOG) that was published earlier this month titled Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos. Filed February 19, 2009 and published earlier this month, it describes a way to provide ?the collaborative generation of interactive features for digital videos, and in particular to interactive video annotations enabling control of video playback locations and creation of interactive games.? And when you read through the description, it becomes clear that the games could be built atop videos submitted to a hosting site, which makes it sound as though Google plans to extend YouTube site into an associated gaming site. Here?s the nut of the description:A video may have associated with it one or more annotations, which modify the appearance and/or behavior of a video as it was originally submitted to an online video hosting site. Some examples of annotations are graphical text box annotations, which display text at certain locations and certain times of the video, and pause annotations, which halt playback of the video at a specified time within the video. Some annotations, e.g. a graphical annotation (such as a text box annotation) comprising a link to a particular portion of a target video, are associated with a time of the target video, which can be either the video with which the annotation is associated, or a separate video. Selecting such annotations causes playback of the target video to begin at the associated time. Such annotations can be used to construct interactive games using videos, such as a game in which clicking on different portions of a video leads to different outcomes. http://industry.bnet.com/technology/100045...ng-via-youtube/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 wow, you are becoming exactly like Comic book guy lol about the same rate of posts since sign-up to lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cy-Kill Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 I'm sorry, who? I am not currently employed, so I've got a lot of time on my hands, yes I spend it online or watching TV, today I am finally going to get to see Avatar in IMAX 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1h4iL Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I'm sorry, who? I am not currently employed, so I've got a lot of time on my hands, yes I spend it online or watching TV, today I am finally going to get to see Avatar in IMAX 3D. That is an awesome movie :D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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