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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.
Let me have a stab at it... there are 3D objects that we recognize in every day life, and by converting menus and navigation of the site to 3D it is simpler for some people to understand than the maze of menus. That is one theory anyway.
People think in ways more inline with a 3D world than menus and submenus. Even if most of us can get used to it, I've seen people pissed because they can't find the "contact us" link. In a 3D world, that would be represented by a telephone or computer or mailbox etc.
Yes, it would have conventions that most web sites stick to now as well, but it's just another way to navigate and interface with the information on a website. Right now, there is no compelling reason to start shifting to that paradigm, but such has been the case with most large changes to how the WWW works.
Why buy a new car with GPS, TPS, rear view camera etc.?
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Actually, we only need that the basic vectors are linearly independent.
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You could combine "tab" with "window" and create a group containing both, but you'd lose the window.tabs[] hierarchy.
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It's a 3d chat system that opens web pages in Internet Explorer when you click on the doors of buildings with names like "Fox News". And it's not even really a 3d chat system. The chat is a conventional-looking instant messenger window in the corner of the screen (in a separate top level window) and doesn't seem to have any relationship to where you are in the 3d view... which is probably a good thing: while I was in there I saw precisely one other person, until they started to move, whereupon they disappeared.
No user created content, or any hint of user-created content.
They were hinting that they were willing to pay for playtesters while I was testing it.
VRML enabled sites have been around for years. It might be a more complex impimentation of a VRML plugin, but it hardly seems noteworthy.
What's noteworthy is that these fools try to claim they're the first, and call a plugin a web browser. That's enough hype and inaccuracy to make me not bother trying it. It feels like a sleazy scam even if it is a legit product.
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They have those, because deaf people can use the telephone. Sometimes because the deafness isn't total and they can hear you with the earpiece turned up (but a ring they could hear across the room would wake up the whole neighborhood), and those who are totally deaf can still use TDD.
Well. I had to check it out. I got bored pretty quick. It seemed like it was a memory muncher. For people used to playing games, the graphics are going to be very disappointing. Also, I like to browse at light speed. The faster the better. This is more like strolling, one spends more time getting there than being there...lol. The whole affair seemed like it took too long to load, and didn't have a lot of support(as in help) I might check it out again some other time when I'm totally bored, but for now it will sit idle.