Microsoft Research RIN

Duration : August 2012
Other team members : Mehul, Vikas


RIN Studio is an interactive video making tool which is being developed by Microsoft Research (MSR) and we made a Rich Interactive Narrative (RIN) media using this tool, aiming on improving the newspaper reading experience by making it more interactive and functional, for a competition floated by Microsoft Research. Also attended a two day workshop organized by MSR about RIN Studio. 


Concept
We all have seen newspaper with moving videos in Harry Potter movies but now with the help of RIN Studio we can transform it to reality.
E- paper  have a dull reading experience where we can’t interact and explore about the article at same spot . We have to search about it online to get more information for exploring. But with RIN, the static images of the newspaper can be replaced with videos, collection of images and more of media. The narration would have the important headlines from the paper but viewer could also explore other articles in paper.  
Everyday an interactive video containing all the news of previous day would be uploaded online from where we all can enjoy it. This could make newspaper reading more of a fun and exploratory (learning) experience. The Interactive paper could also be  new mode of news  for surface  users.