3D Web Navigation was: [GOODIE] Texture-mapped spheres
John Clonts
jclonts at mastnet.net
Sun Feb 6 01:53:35 UTC 2000
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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