Comments on: ExitReality turns Web sites into 3D sandboxes

ExitReality is a new service that turns Web sites into 3-D worlds. Will that be enough to keep people coming back to it as more than a gimmick though?

[rahodeb]

You forgot Vivaty, Rocketon and Smallworlds. Definitely a crowded space...

[harleycw]

Browsing the web and playing in 3D space are pretty separate concepts and don't work well together. I think it would be better to think about making the actual websites themselves more 3 dimensional. Like why just browse in 3 dimensions. Why not have all kinds of tools that auto pop up or scroll in a z direction that is not there today, like diving into articles, word defintions, etc without leaving the page. Web 2.0 concepts are similar to this in that they can dynamically update and load content within a page but nobody seems to have applied that to the general browsing experience.
spacetime and searchme perspective of 3D browsing aren't what I am talking about either, those are just putting 2D in 3D, I am looking for the sites themselves to behave more dimensionally.

[Len Bullard]

What the article fails to mention is that with a basis in real open standards, content created for these sites has a chance of living more than the two years that these companies blow up the big bubble, flip it up, then go home with the cash and let the users who invested in the content hang with no recourse. Also, by steering away from the branded content such as Disney worlds, when a world is closed, you won't hear the screaming through the screams, just complaints.

[Michel Petrucci]

I have downloaded and installed Exitreality but does not works. Instead my booth browsers (IE and Firefox) freeze and stop to reponding until I shut down. ?? Tried to uninstall and re-install but nothing better. any one knows what can I do? no help recieved from Web 2.0 concepts (creator of the pluggin)