Review Of 3D Web Browsers · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 16, 2001 @11:20AM from the flug-durch-die-schweiz dept.

shelflife points to this very intersting article on the 3D Web browsers in Scientific American. He writes that of the 3D systems mentioned, "A Swiss company, Geonova (www.geonova.ch), seems to demonstrate best that the idea of a geography-based Web is feasible with today's PCs. Engineers there created two impressively detailed models of Switzerland--one of the entire nation with 25-meter resolution and another of two central cantons at 50-centimeter resolution. .. Text and iconic labels hovered quite legibly above towns, lakes, companies and tourist attractions; clicking on the labels opened associated Web pages. What other 3D browsers are there -- VRML plugins have been around a while -- yet they do not seem to be successful. Why is that?"

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Functionality? Nope by Synpax1 · 2001-09-16 11:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is just web masturbation. 3 D web browsers are neither a technical accomplishment nor do they lead to greater efficiency on the web.

Besides, if anything like this is going to happen, it will be through plugins like Flash.