The discs will offer multichannel sound, interactive content, still images and full-motion video.

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The layout is rich and colorful, featuring large, clickable images that serve as an interactive video guide.

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Its ability to generate interactive content on the fly that combines text, images, video and audio about millions of topics looks impressive in demos.

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Additionally, Lucas forecasts that within five years digital images of actors and background will be interactive, allowing a moviemaker to download a bit character or a Roman-era colosseum.

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The HISTORY website, located at www.history.com, is the leading online resource for all things history, featuring over 20, 000 videos, images, audio clips, articles and interactive features that allow visitors to dig deeper into a broad range of thousands of historical topics.

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The real, interactive overlay comes complete with sepia-tinged Street View images and a detailed backstory.

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Developers set about compiling the images, video clips and illustrations into an interactive app.

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Three types of interactive graphics let me show sequential art in slideshows, annotate images in guided tours and show steps of a process in slidelines.

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