Ever wanted to view a web page in 3D? Well, now you can.
ExitReality is an IE/FF plugin that can turn any page into 3D…
What is ExitReality for?
- View any webpage in 3D… every website is now a virtual world
- Turn your standard 2D web page into your own unique 3D space
- Meet and chat with people in 3D
- Search and explore thousands of online 3D communities and meet new people!
Wouldn’t it be nice to view a site with friends? Maybe watch YouTube together? Jump into ExitReality.
What Can You Do?
- Convert, decorate and share your Social Network Page in 3D
- Collect cool objects to add to your 3D space or apartment
- Create a 3D Avatar, chat with friends and meet new people
- Invite people to your virtual space
- Host real time parties and events at your online space
This software is a novel idea and well pulled off, although there’s still a lot of tweaking to be done and kinks to iron out. Fortunately, it’s still in beta, so its a great start.
But the business ideas of this could be amazing. Think about it for a second. You can have live, interactive ads, or eye catching product placement. For example, one of our Little Design Planet clients is doing a Dive Fest website. Could you imagine making this into a 3D beach party? Visitors to the site could maybe see the stands that will be at the actual event, and take a walk through. Potentially, customers are likely to stay on the site for longer periods of time, meeting fellow customers or suppliers and creating further business relationships. Mutually beneficial, wouldn’t you say?
You can take objects from one person’s 3D space and copy it into your own. It could be something like a music jukebox, or if your clever, you could create a brand of some sort, and people will be able to copy that into their own domains, increasing brand awareness.
You can really see what it will be like in a few years time. Surfing the internet will be like playing a game. There are already some cool ideas popping up, just look at 3D Shopping for instance.
One issue I have run into from using this briefly was applying a theme. Sometimes it would drop the newly created theme above the old theme without removing it, so you see both. Or sometimes it would be floating around somewhere else on the page. There is no way to refresh your site and start from the beginning, but I’m sure that no doubt this will soon be a thing of the past.
*Update*
So I took ExitReality on another test drive, and got the opinions of a few other web enthusiasts. And I must say, I’m inclined to agree with the concerns they raised.
In all honestly, I find the 3D surfing sluggish as it chomps up your bandwidth. Unfortunately, it seems to detract from the general feel of the experience and doesn’t necessarily enhance the video and viewing experience.
All users that go ahead and develop their own little world within ExitReality have a lot of extra work ahead of them to make a visitor’s experience worthwhile. For instance, a user must create a avatar with a full profile and all the software that comes with it to take part. Is all this effort really going to produce that much more long-term interest than a 2D site?
The potential is certainly there. My concern is whether or not the novelty will wear thin before it properly takes shape. Many thanks to Sony for your input.
