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76 -- INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SOL nar990006 POC Marty Coffee, 303/236-9439, Procurement Clerk E-MAIL: click here to contact the procurement technician via, M30coffe@sc.blm.gov. The Bureau of Land Management has a requirement to provide advanced digital multimedia technology. This requirement proposes to build upon a successful prototype model(The Aurora Project) which includes the San Pedro River in Arizona.The Aurora Project created an exciting new interactive and educational communications paradigm for natural resource projects. This project combines the latest digital multimedia techniques with examples of sound field science portraying community watershed partnerships. The BLM has identified additional potential projects using the Aurora techniques. Projects may be located in the Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West and Northwest US and northern Mexico. Shooting locations are in rugged remote natural areas. These requirements shall produce the following three distinct products: (1) CD-ROM or possibly a DVD-ROM (which has the capacity of almost seven CD-ROM's) shall be used as a stand alone product to provide a rich and fast interactive, non-linear, multimedia experience to apopulation of all ages of individuals, families and small groups who plan to visit the San Pedro River area. Schools, educational and conservation organizations and travel agents would also be audiences. Sites shall be selected where QTVR panoramas would be photographed and digitized, and shall incorporate hot spots highlighting special historic, geological, biological, archaeological, cultural or other features with video, still images, and narration. This content could easily fill up a CD-ROM disk of 650 megabytes. An interface design that uses QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) movies (360 degree panoramas in which the user can move freely -- horizontally, vertically and zoom in and out)shall be used. Interactive hot spots in the QTVR's shall present short audio-visual and digitized video stories. Animated USGS digital elevation models(DEM's)(realistic landscape representations)low elevation aerial videography and on-the-ground glide cam video footage moving through the environment could introduce each QTVR; (2) Computer Kiosk. The CD-ROM with slight modification shall also be produced as an interactive computer Kiosk CD-ROM for placement at public locations such as the future San Pedro River Interpretative Center, other visitor centers, and Government building entry ways. Visitors would be invited to use the kiosks to get immediate and rich multimedia information about various features of the Conservation Area; and (3) Internet Web Site. This CD-ROM shall also be used in conjunction with a San Pedro Internet Web Site which has already produced a web site with a San Pedro component. The Web site shall provide the primary source of current graphic elements such as QTVR panoramas and other more static information during the time that the project is being produced. Links to new dimensions of the Conservation Area which become available after the CD-ROM is mastered and duplicated for distribution ahall also be added to the Web site. This requirement shall be produced in sequences that make the interactive QTVR panoramas and other very attractive audiovisual information available on the Web as soon as possible. Continued production of a more media rich and interactive CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM shall follow. The Internet site shall be updated as the project progresses to include appropriate new information and also new media rich technologies such as attractive narrated slide shows and video clips which are already becoming available at common intenet modem speeds such as 56 and 28K/second. Firms must have the capability to produce in the Spanish language as well as English. It is anticipated that a one-year IDIQ contract with two one-year options will be awarded to multiple firms. Firms will be required to demonstrate a completed digital interactive multimedia CD-ROM. Solicitation documents should be available about mid-November. A preproposal conference demonstrating the Aurora Project will be held in Boise, Idaho around the first of December. See Note 1. Posted 10/28/98 (W-SN266371). (0301)

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