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.

Comments

This is UNIX

[Anonymous Coward]

I know this.

1996 called

[barzok]

It wants its VRML back.

Re:What's the point?

[perdera]

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!!!

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Re:My 3d browser

[mustafap]

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.