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3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review
GreyGoo writes "The media release claims 'Internet surfers will be able to walk through their favourite websites as if they are characters in a computer game with the launch of the world's first 3D browser in Australia today.' However a review from someone who has actually tested the software raises important questions about the worth of the product considering the competing social and 3D products, and that sites have to be hand-crafted in order to truly support the new browser." A browser tied to a social networking scheme seems like a recipe for supreme annoyance.
I know this.
It's actually 4D - you browse in time.
Then again, I'd like a 5D browser. I've always wanted to browse Wikipedia via Tesseract...
And yes, My internets have 4 dimensional properties! :D
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Look forward to pop-ups!
...for a browser that renders genuine 3d solid objects, so I can code all my sites to literally slap everyone still using IE. But other than that, I don't care about "3d" on a computer.
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Actually, I'm expecting it to be a rickroll.
"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you go"
What the heck? I'm stuck in the website!
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
By your definition, every time I leave a room I enter a new dimension.
Depending upon who built your house, that could be true...
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It wants its VRML back.
There exists, right now, several extremely successful 3D social environments that create virtual worlds for people to meet and greet in. Take WoW, for example. The interface is (compared to a kludgy browser interface) extremely easy to use. The chat features are fairly extensive. The world is massive, somewhat customizable, and very scenic. Oh, and there's a game to go with it, too. On the other side of the same coin, SecondLife has a large "social chat" following. The graphics aren't exactly WoW-level, but they meet or exceed any expectations one would have had of a browser-3D world. It is also far more customizable that WoW.
Great, I can't wait to take a 20 minute bat flight from slashdot.org to cnn.com...
/global WTB port to cnn!!!
Heh. Funny how your sig works with that post.
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It depends on how you browse. I typically have 1000 tabs open that I force onto the same row (I leave a few pixels for the frame) and I mouse-wheel through them at ~60 pages per second. Since my tabs are each 1 pixel wide, they're no more discreet than my horizontal resolution.
Isn't that how everyone does it?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Yeah, Escher was a lousy fucking architect.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
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No, no, no. You obviously should "> EXAMINE TABLE."
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Reminds me of someone who wrote a Zork styled system for configuring linux, discussed here on slashdot many years ago. One of the comments that came back was this:
>Take SCSI
Cannot do that
>Take SCSI
SCSI did not budge
>Take SCSI
You got SCSI
Spot on, that was.
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