Below video shows the Ramayana projects done by Google Chrome Experiments.
The whole story were build by WebGL, HTML5 and JavaScript. A retold popular epic tales through interactive Chrome Experiment and integrating Chrome features and Google services like Chat, Products, Weather and Maps. Google wanted to take the giants and launch the Chrome browser in asia. To bring the idea "Chrome is not your traditional browser" Instead of telling a story but the idea is to show stories through technology and not about technology, in a way that people feel an emotional connection to Chrome capabilities.(Google.com.au, n.d.)
There have many version of Ramayana story that we could read in different media platform. Here is the rough summary of Ramayana story of what my understanding.
Dasharatha , the King of Ayodhya decided to passed his throne to his eldest son Rama and retire to the forest. Queen Kaikey, the favorite wife tried to stop the king because she wanted her sons Bharata the second son to inherit. Because of an oath Dasharatha had made to her years before, she got the king to agree to banish Rama for fourteen years and to crown Bharata. Rama was always obedient, he brought Sita his wife and Lakshmana one of the twins brother accompanied to banishment in the forest.
One day Rama and Lakshmana wounded a rakshasas(demon) princess who tried to secude Rama. The princess returned to her brother Ravana. Ravana was planned to abduct Sita after hearing about her incomparable beauty. He sent one of his demons disguised as a magical golden deer to entice Sita. To please her, Rama and Lakshmana went to hunt the deer down. After they left, Sita were trapped by a holy man and Ravana catched her to his kingdom in Lanka.
Rama and Lakshmana went to seek for Sita. They sought help from Hanuman, the monkey band can fly since his father is the wind. Hanuman flew to Lanka and found Sita was in the grove.He tried to comforted her and told her Rama would come to save her soon. Ravana capture Hanuman and set Hanuman on fire. With his tail burning, Hanuman escaped and hopped around Lanka. He flew back to Rama and told him Sita location.
Rama, Lakshmana and the monkey army built a causeway from the tip of India to Lanka and crossed over to Lanka. Ravana was get killed by Rama and freed Sita. They returned to Ayodhay and Bharata returned the crown to him.(Tiernan, 2006)
References:
Google.com.au, (n.d.). Google Ramayana – Think Insights – Google. [online] Available at: http://www.google.com.au/think/campaigns/google-google-ramayana.html [Accessed 20 Jul. 2014].
Sahoo, J. (2012). 5 Episode Ramayana from Google using HTML5. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIXDcQ7qbNo [Accessed 18 Jul. 2014].
Tiernan, P. (2006). Story and Summary of the Ramayana. [online] College.holycross.edu. Available at: http://college.holycross.edu/projects/himalayan_cultures/2006_plans/ptiernan/story.htm [Accessed 20 Jul. 2014].
