Australian company ExitReality launched an application that could render all web sites, not just ones especially designed for it, in 3D. If a page isn’t customized for the app, it’s shown as a street with pages as scrolling billboards and links as streetlamps or anything similar.
You get an avatar inside the 3D environment that can interact with other people current surfing the web site through ExitReality as well. Social networking web sites such as Facebook and MySpace take on the form of a virtual apartment with your pictures hanging on the walls and your friends’ list appearing as doors to other apartments. YouTube turns into a theater where avatars sit next to each other watching a clip, though it doesn’t appear to work yet when I checked. If you own a web site, you can customize it as you wish using the available backgrounds and themes and objects you can place inside the 3D world (see how Mr. Gadget looks in 3D on the pic above). It’s a nifty concept and can get a bit addicting while you’re at it, but unless most web sites create their own 3D versions, it can get really confusing. Also, it seems that when you do want to read something on a page, you’d still need to go to the original 2D web site. Still, it’s exciting to think what’ll happen if this flies.
Check out ExitReality to download the application
via Physorg
