ExitReality = exit browser
With ExitReality you can browse any 2D website in 3D inside your browser — at least any websites where the owner was able to create the 3D world from templates. Oh, and the ExitReality software is only for Windows users.
I was interested to try this out but Firefox 3.03 kept crashing whenever I went to VTOReality.com and attempted to claim the site and customize the 3D landscape. Another day or perhaps another VTOR author wants to try this out (?)
I like the concept of making the entire 2D web available as 3D and letting webmasters create the world as time goes on, but they need to get this on Mac and Linux and shore up the Firefox gremlins. If you find this concept interesting too, then keep your eye on playce.com:
plaYce is “Making the World a Playground” by providing a 3D virtual world for games, based on the real world. plaYce’s technology reconstructs the entire world in 3D and streams it with high frame rate from within the browser, providing an immersive “Mirror World” gaming experience, without a heavy client download.
Will have to see how this turns out.
November 2nd, 2008 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
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comment | November 2, 2008 at 04:58 | individual comment-link
It crashes on IE6 as well. I have an older machine…like much of the world…and although I know I need to upgrade, getting rid of a computer that does MOST of what I need in these times of “economic uncertainty” just doesn’t make sense to me.
But I tried to load my website into Exit Reality anyway, partly because I don’t want to lose an audience, but mostly ’cause the concept is REALLY cool! Readers actually walking around and engaging with my site content in a totally 3D environment? How could I NOT want to play?
Whether it was due to my computer’s age or Exit Reality’s limitations, however, all I could manage to get it to do was make a sort of portal to my regular 2D website. If you put my website into their search feature, you’ll go to a room I was able to design between crashes, but there isn’t really anything to interact with. Just a big poster for my website that, when you click on it, opens my plain, old normal website.
I suspect I need to do some coding differently on my site, but with my computer crashing every 3 minutes, I gave up. I hate sitting on the sidelines while technology passes me by…but finances dictate I wait a bit longer on that new computer (which, of course is a blog post in an of itself about society splitting into the technology “Haves”, “Have Somes”, and the “What Technologies”?
comment | November 2, 2008 at 08:27 | individual comment-link
plaYce is about to release it’s beta. To be among the first users, sign up at beta@playce.com