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I was one of the developers on this tie-in site for the movie Avatar while freelancing at AKQA. The premise of the site is that you are in charge of driving a ROVR (an exploration vehicle) on the planet Pandora. While driving the ROVR, you can take pictures with an outboard camera, listen to external audio, view and log plant, animal and mineral discoveries and view a 3D terrain map of the planet surface.
The ROVR view is intentionally low-res and has a low refresh rate, which is meant to give the impression of a transmission back to the main ship. When you take a picture, it passes the coordinates of the ROVR to a server farm, which then renders a high-resolution image and places it in your Log view.
I was responsible for creating the back-end communication for logging in, sending and receiving images, and various animations around the site. To see all this in action (like taking a photo, logging your discoveries, etc), you have to create a login.
Check it out here.
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