3D Web Navigation was: [GOODIE] Texture-mapped spheres

Martin B. Pomije pomije at inav.net
Sun Feb 6 01:14:23 UTC 2000


John-Reed Maffeo wrote:
> 
> Hey, why not go the whole way with a 3D Browser interface.
> I have seen the Mac Project X (I think?) which was a first
> rough cut and there was some SciFi movie(Johnnie Mnemonic?) that had a
> 3DVR browser.
> 
> We could define a whole set of XML tags for specifying the 3D
> character of the site. Whoo, Whoo!
> 
> John-Reed
> 

I haven't seen any evidence that 3D navigation makes for a good
interface.  3D has its uses, but Jakob Nielsen pretty much sums up my
feeling about it here:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981115.html





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