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Aodhan McDunnough

Exit Reality, nice concept long in coming.

ExitReality plugs every site into 3D

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Malachi

One of the demo images appears to confirm my worst fear: putting pages into monotonous rows of gilded frames is faux-3d. If there is no compelling geographic connectedness of the pages so cataloged it is worse than useless, it impedes navigation. You might as well just put a fancy frame on your browser window.

This is part of the reasons that SL stores are such a pain to navigate but their 2d counterparts aren't. Think of a large vendor of clothing or textures. They fall prey to the "library problem" where there is limited natural ordering and so you may be faced with an unorganizable wall of "stone textures" and are forced to visually scan the entire wall in search of what you are looking for.

Similarly, there is little information that puts the 2d web into a natural geography. Okay, maybe the RFCs belong near the IEEE standards, but does the CSS quick reference belong near them or way over in the HTML section.

I'm not eager to load any extension, especially one that is little more vetted than a press release. From the literature it struck me as an attempt to grab search traffic from those boring 2d sites that work.

Thanks for pointing it out, but I remain skeptical for the nonce.



added: It requires an ActiveX control installation to run. No thanks.

Persephone Milk

I agree with you Malachi. Moreover, there is really nothing new or innovative about this. I have seen, even tried, various "3D" web browsers over the last seven or eight years. None of them were intuitive, and none offered anything more useful than browsing the web in 2D. As you point out there is very little in a typical web site that would lend itself to a 3D rendering in a way that would make the information more accessible. I am far more interesting in seeing how people make deliberate use of a virtual world environment to present and offer interaction with web pages (such as HTML on a prim in SL).

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Aodhan McDunnough

You missed the important graphics, check the gallery for the Myspace room.

Malachi

The graphics are a little too low rez, but what is on the second floor? Why is it there? The avatar as shown is not near any information content and would have to walk or camera to know anything at all. And walking up steps instead of clicking a link when the stairs give no clue as to what is there or why you'd want to go up? Should I infer anything from the fact that the steps are dark? And where is the blinking purple background?!?



People have been trying to get a working geographic model of general information display since at least Microsoft Bob. I sometimes wonder why they continue to try.

Raindrop Drinkwater

I've tried it. My blog looks like a mess, and apart from choosing a theme, I don't know how to customize it.

The knowledge base and the ExitReality blog are not available at the moment.

Every time I try to do something, it tries to launch Internet Explorer -- which is blocked by my firewall.
So until it's fully compatible with Firefox, I won't be able to do much with it.

Moving around is natural and feels a lot like being in SL, except that... you're stuck in running mode, and you can't fly! GAH!

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moe

I cant run this it tacks out my processor and eats all my ram lol. so I will wait till tis refined