[Year 12 IT Apps] Internet latest: now we'll all be 3D surfers

[Anderson, Stuart L]

INTERNET surfers will be able to walk through their favourite websites as if they are characters in a computer game with the launch of the world's first 3D browser in Australia today.

Melbourne-based software developer ExitReality has created software that can be quickly downloaded to computers and that converts standard two-dimensional web pages into virtual rooms. 

Websites such as YouTube are transformed into movie theatres while social networking pages like MySpace are turned into virtual lounge rooms. 

The software also enables people to see other web page visitors as avatars and interact with them, moving the Second Life model from the walled garden of the game to the entire web.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24362633-7582,00.html


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