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3B Web Browser -- Browse the web like it's a city!

There have been several out there like this. I remember one called Vurisotity (or colse to it). It was of a 3d world that you could explore. It reminded me of EQ in look. You could meet other people online and the such. the only problem was getting a website designed for this was ungodly expensive. hope this doesn't fall to the same pitfalls.

This is how I envision turtle decking.

The mods for that must be fun. You could pile all your porn sites into a Red Light district and add some sprites taken from your little VirtualStripper dancing in the corner of your screen.

I just don't see how this is any faster then just browsing through each individual page anyway. I mean, it has to load up the front page of each site anyway.

These controls are horrible! I can't even back up!? Strafing would be nice, too.

I'm browsing this on a T1 and the load times are still unacceptable.

Consider how many pages have to load.

Also; is it a T1 all to your own self, or is it shared?

This time of day; all to myself.

Nice

I'm at work. I only have cable at home.

I'll assume you have bandwidth limiters then.

Besides, T1 isn't even all that fast anymore. Even OC-12 is slow compared to what speeds some people I know have.

Also take into account it probably loads up... Say 100 pages. Then those pages all have upload limits, so you don't get your full down rate.

It's fine as long as I don't move too fast, but once you start running around the 3B city it takes a while to catch up.
And yes, I am limited to T1. The network I'm on is much, much faster. But this time of the day all the students are asleep or at class, so I can easily hit my T1 limit.

Reminds me of the DOOM GUI for Linux. A lot more fun than "kill -9", I must say.

~J

Im sitting on 5 meg cable, and its slow enough I can gripe here while its loading.
If this is the future of the internet, Im going back to command line before its too late.

I think I could browse faster using 1st edition rules!

I work on a system that has OC-3 to the desktop. Too bad I can't host dumpshock files on it :/

This is possibly the most useless browser I've seen. I'd rather use IE. What's the point? Increased bandwith use doesn't count as a feature in my book. I pity the VCs who've spent their money on this (you can't blame them for not beeing tech-savy).
Sun tried with their 3D java desktop, but that at least had features beyond beeing bulky. At some point we will probably get close to VR-UIs, but it won't look like the 3B browser. The single most promising feature of VR-UI is screen size. Most people prefer to work with a bigger screen if they can, with VR there would be no limit at all. The next most promising feature are FPS, MMORPG and other games.