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Thursday Feb 01, 2007

The 3D Web: Time to dump your mouse, create an avatar and learn how to use a game pad!

While everybody is talking about Web 2.0, a more silent revolution may be happening on the Web (so SL is trying to change this!) that may have a profound impact in the way we will be deploying and interacting with Web applications in the near future. Mich Wagner captured this fairly well in his article Virtual Worlds: The Next Big Thing Or Next Big Nothing?

"A generation of young people is growing up hacking and slashing their way through virtual worlds -- that's literally true in the case of World of Warcraft -- and they're going to expect a 3-D, virtual world interface for the rest of their online interaction."

As with new emerging technology the jury is still out, but a few big players like Sun and IBM are starting to take notice:

"There is something very human about visual interfaces. I almost think of text-based interfaces, including browsers, as 'narrowband' into our brains, whereas visual interfaces are 'broadband' into our brains."

So, dump your mouse, create your avatar, learn how to use a game pad  (nice to be able to use both hands and more than three buttons finally :-) and join the 3D Web Virtual world with "broadband" interaction into your brain!

 

 

Comments:

There's nothing new about 3D worlds, the technology is no better today than it was when I worked for a VR company 10 years ago. (In fact it was probably better then, because VR was a bit of a fad at the time and there was loads more innovative-- if expensive-- hardware around to support it). The "3D revolution" will only happen when there are decent 3D displays and 3D input devices that don't give you motion sickness. Until then, 2D might be less engaging, but it's usually every bit as effective.

Posted by 213.202.184.142 on March 10, 2007 at 02:24 PM PST #

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