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

Lawson English english at primenet.com
Sun Feb 6 06:59:52 UTC 2000


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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