Mountain View, California-based Kaleida Labs and parent companies Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp chose the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art to demonstrate Kaleida’s multimedia tools, ScriptX and Media Player. They also displayed Dreamscape, software that enables users to create moving characters and choreograph scenes, to create their own on-screen computer films. Apple and IBM also re-committed to using Kaleida’s object-based ScriptX programming language, which Kaleida describes as the first programming language created expressly for interactive multimedia programme development. IBM said that Kaleida’s technology is an integral part of IBM’s strategy to deliver multimedia applications using object-oriented technology. IBM looks for the technology to speed development of multimedia titles, reduce programming time and provide a visual programming environment. With ScriptX developers write an application once that can be used on both Mac OS and Windows systems when used with Media Player, Kaleida’s objec t-oriented operating environment. Media Player was created to support ScriptX applications; it needs to be rewritten for each operating system supported. It interprets a single ScriptX application at run-time and provides system-independent compositing of audio, video and graphical elements. ScriptX will also support playback under OS/2 and on PowerPC in the near future.
