Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, California, has pitched in with a suite of World Wide Web development tools called Cosmos designed for use in creating interactive applications. Included are Cosmo Create, CosmoCode, Cosmo Player and Cosmo MediaBase. All support HyperText Mark-up Language, Virtual Reality Modelling Language 2.0 and Java. Cosmo can be used for content creation, application development, multimedia browsing and media asset management, Silicon Graphics claims. Cosmo Create is a development tool for writing Web pages and multimedia titles. Cosmo Code includes a run-time interpreter and compiler for Java, graphical debugger, a visual source code browser and several libraries. Cosmo Player is described as a multimedia viewer that can be used as a primary browser or as a plug-in to existing browsers. The Cosmo Motion engine, a run-time environment embedded in Cosmo Player, can be licensed for other browsers. Cosmo MediaBase is media asset management software for interactive access and provides structure to multimedia Web sites. The new software provides storage, retrieval, delivery and management of multimedia data. There are applications programming interfaces for browsing, querying and delivering data. The Cosmos set is due by mid-1996.
