First Look: Viewing The Internet In 3D

AFP: ExitReality said its application allows users to turn any regular website into a 3D virtual environment, where an avatar representing them can walk around and meet other browsers viewing the same website.

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September 18, 2008 at 10:50 am - YouTube/ExitReality
Dateline: Melbourne, Australia
Pain the Butt   September 18th, 2008 - 11:34 am

Looks like a pain to use. What is the point

Dan Reader   September 18th, 2008 - 1:09 pm

Is this a video on how NOT to do a demonstration of a new product?

John   September 18th, 2008 - 1:29 pm

Maybe you should have taken a few minutes and figured out how to use the program before making a video on it? Just a thought.

Randy   September 18th, 2008 - 3:45 pm

After 15 years in web development I can confidently say, this is total baloney! The only reason people would now spend 30 minutes on 2 minutes of content, is because they are utterly confused. Maybe if you had a total site that was developed for this format, you might get some value, but other wise how is this any different or better than Flash with Papervision. And who is this silly woman promoting her own lame site in this very lame demo. Amateur hour.

Ken   September 18th, 2008 - 3:54 pm

What an innovation! I can’t wait to see the backside of a web page like this one.

Big Bubba   September 18th, 2008 - 4:43 pm

That video demo background pansy music made want to puke all over my monitor.

Anyone who has a “constant” need for relaxation music to be played everywhere and all of the time should have their head examined.

This is a really dumb demo of a bad attempt at making the internet even harder to access.

- Big Bubba

Erik   September 18th, 2008 - 5:40 pm

Hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa……….
(Oh this was a serious item?)

JJJ Fay   September 18th, 2008 - 5:44 pm

I agree with every statement here. This was and remains a terrible demonstration of a product that is still in very early stages of it’s development. The thing that baffles me, is that this was not a live demonstration. Why, while promoting a new we browser interface (competing with the big boys) would you bring this presentation to potential users / clients WHEN IT IS VIDEO TAPED; Stop, Rewind, Play over. Terrible work. This women should be fired.

On the product – It looks like it could be fun to play around with, but the direction is wrong I think. Instead of every website being in 3D, it would make more sense to create a whole operating system in 3D. The reason for this would be to create your own world inside of a computer. Give them the options to have their electronic world to be on an island, or in the mounts, hell, in a bar. This would attract mass numbers of users due to the feeling that all daily computer users feel. Our computer is already our world. We feel like that now, creating a product that would let us push it further is what we want. While the ideas of this application is good, it is before it’s time, and quite frankly to big of a switch to make for this low profile organization. Google, maybe google could pull it off.

Change the direction, compete with the operating system you are using. As a Vista user, I will tell you that I am very unhappy with it, it looks great, navigational features are nice, but it freezes, and doesn’t provide the amount of custability your company should be bringing to the public.

rob   September 19th, 2008 - 1:50 am

I’d like to sue the demo person to get my 8 minutes back. What an incompetent. The amount of actual “demo” in this demo could have filled 30 seconds…not 8 minutes. Fire her.

Capt. Kirk   September 19th, 2008 - 2:36 am

I didn’t mind the glitches. I understood it was in the early stages of development and still thought it as very interesting. The potentials are enormous and dangerous.

Niko Bellic   September 23rd, 2008 - 1:21 am

Who is slower, the woman or the computer. What the hell was that, a 486? 2nd, I’ve seen better 3D environments on a 16 bit sega genesis. 3rd, What the hell was the point? You can move a little guy around in a horribly rendered 3d environment and then wait a couple minutes for a web page to agonizingly pop up. Completely worthless, rarely do people make software that completely degrades the functionality of said purpose of the software, but this one gets the trophy. 4th, The cake is a lie.

SorryCharlie   October 1st, 2008 - 7:38 am

Looks like Second Life (trash!). After playing many MMoRPGs online and seeing a preview of the upcoming PS3’s “Home” clone of SL, this and Second Life leave much to be desired. Clunky graphics that take an eternity to load, wierd menus that are anything but intuitive. No thanks.

KerryJ   October 11th, 2008 - 9:08 pm

No, this was not a demo by the makers of Exit Reality. I do not work for them. No, this was not a demo at all. The people who embedded this video should have included my notation that this was a “warts and all first stumble” through the program.

I wanted to see if Exit Reality was intuitive to use, useful for browsing web sites and how it worked on a medium speed broadband connection using a mid-level home computer.

As some of you say, the program itself is clunky and unless a web site were built with the program specifically in mind, it isn’t going to add much to the browsing experience.

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