HyperCaster [beta]

– Video for the web!

HyperCaster is an interactive video player built for Internet browsing, suited for:

• Blogvideo
• Documentaries
• Education
• Information
• Games
• and a lot more...

Features

Links to other videos, sites and documents

• Appears on screen and in a menu

Safe surfing – You can click on the links knowing that you can return to your current position

• HyperCaster pauses when a new browser window is opened by a link
• The playback restarts from the last position when you return to a previously played video
• All links can be found in the menu “Chapters and Links” down to the right in the player. You can follow the links whenever you want.

Browser compliant

• The ”Back button” in the browser takes you back to the position where you left the video
  

Enables new kinds of storytelling and interaction

• Video browsing: With linking capabilities the video material can be edited in layers that aligns to the habits of the internet users:
  • The Overview Layer (Gets the users attention)
  • The Content Layer
  • The In Depth Layer
• Expert overviews of a topic with In-Depth-links
• Spatial navigation in videofilmed environments
• An emotional entrance to a complex subject
• Interactive video with decision points
• Quizzes
• Banners
• Clickable hotspots on a “traditional” video with In-Depth-links
• Help different target groups navigating to the the information of their interest

Easy to use editor

• It's fast and easy to place links and other kinds of graphical elements in the videos with drag-and-drop.
  

Dynamic graphics

• The graphical overlays gets their content from a data base
• It's easy to update
• The overlays works as templates for a whole site
• It's easy to change the look of all videos

Robust technology

• HyperCaster is a plugin to the JWPlayer, one of the most frequently used players on the web today.
• The JWPlayer handles a variety of streaming solutions and has a lot of plugins that can be combined with HyperCaster, for example subtitles.

API

• It's easy to create graphics for HyperCaster
• It's easy to create widgets that controls the playback for example when creating an interactive video
• The player can be embedded in websites and in Flash applications

Exempel

• HyperCaster is used by Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, click here!

Contacts

Contact Jonas Collin for more information and a demonstration:
E-mail: jonas [at] happycloud [dot] se
Phone: 0046 (0) 733-140 340

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