Using Be Here's iVideo technology, AtomFilms' Web site and Intel's Streaming Web Video software, viewers will navigate through scenes as interactive participants.
The group's first film is "The New Arrival," which will debut at Cannes Wednesday. The agreement is another effort by Intel to increase the number of uses for a PC.
Intel, the largest chip manufacturer in the industry, also has an Architecture Lab that focuses on developing new media technologies for the PC.
With its latest effort, Intel finds itself entering the filmmaking world with AtomFilms, which hosts online movie shorts, and Be Here, whose iVideo technology provides the 360-degree view of each scene in a film.
Backgrounds in the films will not be refreshed -- only the areas of the display that move will require that the pixels change. The experience will only get better as broadband access proliferates, executives said.
Intel provides the streaming technologies via its Streaming Web Video software, which is integrated in RealNetworks' RealSystem G2.
Free to viewers
"We're trying to act like a catalyst to bring together technologies and promote new uses," said Fred Langhorst, marketing director for Intel's Architecture Lab.
The demand for immersive films may be nonexistent now, but potentially tens of millions of users could be watching them by year's end via access to RealNetworks' 15 million viewers per week.
The movies will start as shorts and will eventually build to feature length depending on the demand. They will be free and can be viewed with 56K modems.
