Exit Reality : Including the web into the metaverse?
September 17, 2008 11:00 amSatisfying widespread curiosity and - hopefully - high expectations, Exit Reality - tagline ‘The entire web in 3D!’ - is set to launch tomorrow, or late(r) tonight, depending on your timezone, Danny Stefanic confirms on err… Facebook. ‘You will be one of the first people on the planet to view, interact and chat with fellow attendees in the Exit Reality Plaza. From there you can explore the millions of worlds online and decorate your own webspace in 3D.‘ 2AM London UK, so 6PM SLT (today, Sept 17th).
To visit the ExitReality Plaza in 3D, go to this rather strangely build url at launch time! If you have not installed the ExitReality plug-in before, you will be asked to do so in order to enter. If you have previously installed our Private Beta version, you will be asked to upgrade to the all new version. I wonder - and am anxious to test - what http://3d.exitreality.com/?q=http://www.vintfalken.com will lead to! ;)
Ariana Barnes was one of ExitReality’s beta testers and shares a review on virtualunderworld.net. A short summary of Exit Reality’s pro’s and con’s (anno July 2008), until we all can discover it for ourselves:
ExitReality Pro
- Real time chat functionality connecting people visiting the same websites. Indeed, see Weblin.
- Standards: VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language, which is X3D’s ancestor.
- Automatically convert Web 2D to VRML. Special designed templates for popular websites. (Check Ariane’s post & Mr Ambling’s.)
ExitReality Cons (or could use more work)
- Does not do FF3.
- Cheesy, stupid name. Right, let’s add to the stigma that virtual worlds’ inhabitants already suffer.
- Cheesy, boring avatars: VRML was never designed for displaying human like avatars.
Still, curious - I admit my mesh is far from perfect humanish real in Second Life anyway - and wondering how far we can push those breast sliders in VRML! ;)
Tags: 3D, 3D web, exitreality, metaverse, virtual worlds
3 Responses to “Exit Reality : Including the web into the metaverse?”
I admit it sounds fascinating. I suspect it creates a ‘virtual room’ based on the URL - basically an ad-hock network, much like Apple’s “Bonjour” system.
Overall, it appears the be highly similar in concept to Google’s “Lively”, albeit with antiquated technology (I had no idea anyone still used VRML).
Should prove to be interesting. I plan to be there (if I can remember to be) - I’ll stick my tongue out at ya if I make it. ~winks~
First testing tonight was not positive. I hope it’s concurrency (apparently it was announced on some kind of TV news/station/… ) causing this and that things will function more proper tomorrow.
I concur.
it looks really, really promising. At first. Then I see it runs on Active X. That alone will kill it because Active X does not run on Mac or Unix/Linux. so much for any full-scale adaptability and mass population adoption. It also is not much different from Google Lively in that it’s just an ad-hock network (3-D room) among you and anyone else on that URL.
The imagery was okay, nothing to blink at to be sure, but acceptable. Unfortunately, it appears 100% click-to-interact except actual chatting.
I hate to say it: I left after five minutes of chat with others (all asking how to move and such) and actually went to control panel - > uninstall.
It’s promising. But that it will not be platform independent is what will cause it to be nothing more than an “also ran”.
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