In these DVD highlights, we present digital mock-ups to demonstrate potential applications of new immersive display technology developed by Dataspace Insight. The key contribution of this new technology is scalability - scalability with respect to the physical size of the display and scalability with respect to the rate at which information is made accessible to users. The motivation for providing both types of scalability is to allow users to rapidly navigate to detailed information about points of interest while maintaining perceptual contact with surrounding information.

Each clip features a proposed application of this new technology. These examples demonstrate the advantages of scalable access to both detailed and contextual information. The clip entitled Find the Conservatory presents a mock-up of an infotainment application. In this clip, children use a search and discovery tool to find a target feature and they are rewarded by the display of a video sequence. The clip entitled Office Air Photo Explorer shows an application for working with large databases of geographical information. In this example, a user is able to examine detailed information from aerial photography while maintaining contact with the bigger picture into which the details fit. The clip entitled Wilpena Pound shows the benefits of presenting both contextual and detailed information in a GIS search-and-discovery tool. Finally, the clip entitled Library Archives shows a family interactively studying and exploring a richly detailed heritage map: a map that would otherwise be totally inaccessible: too large and too fragile to mount on a library wall, and not feasible to display on a single screen.