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3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review

Posted by timothy on from the how-your-browser-views-a-sphere dept.

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.

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  1. My 3d browser by gnick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I already have a 3d browser:
    1) Vertical
    2) Horizontal
    3) Tabbed

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  2. This is UNIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know this.

  3. How is this a first? by TiggertheMad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    VRML enabled sites have been around for years. It might be a more complex impimentation of a VRML plugin, but it hardly seems noteworthy.

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  4. 1996 called by barzok · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wants its VRML back.

  5. Re:What's the point? by perdera · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!!!