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

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Sun Feb 6 15:43:39 UTC 2000


Two related ULs.

http://www.netscape.com/columns/techvision/innovators_rg.html

and the founding of epinions.com

http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/news/NET:venture-capital-and-the-instant-companies.html

cheers

bruce

Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at disney.com> wrote:
> Folks --
> 
> You might all be amused to know that Project X was done by Ramanathan Guha
> while he was working in our group at Apple. He was "the other really smart
> guy" in Doug Lenat's CYC project, came to Apple, then went to Netscape, and
> is now part of a new startup.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
> -----------
> 
> At 10:59 PM -0800 2/5/00, Lawson English wrote:
> >I'm amazed. I actually found what appears to be a genuine live link.
> >
> ><http://www.xspace.net/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Project X was an abandoned project from Apple to create a 3D MetaContent
> >Framework browser. The idea is that hierarchical content (e.g., file
> >directories, webpage directories, etc), can be "flown through" by creating
> >a series of "clouds" of directories. It worked pretty darned well, in my
> >opinion, but was a victim of Apple's never-ending search to cut costs by
> >cutting out all R&D programs.
> >
> >There are apparently lots of other possible uses. Check out the white paper
> >at the site.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sat, Feb 5, 2000 6:53 PM, John Clonts <jclonts at mastnet.net> wrote:
> >>URL for ProjectX?  Web search was not fulfilling....
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>John
> >>
> >>Lawson English wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2000 6:14 PM, Martin B. Pomije <pomije at inav.net>  wrote:
> >>> >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
> >>>
> >>> DId you ever see the Project X interface?
> >>>
> >>> I read the above article and he doesn't appear to make reference to it
> >at
> >>> all and none of his generic objections really applies to it that I can
> >see.
> >>>
> >>>
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