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 .
Individual web users are then shown as avatars (virtual people) in the same way as people are featured in virtual games.
ExitReality founder Danny Stefanic said users of the software, which ran in tandem with popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, would be “blown away” by the rendering of traditional two-dimensional web pages as full interactive 3D environments.
“It is the entire web in 3D — making 40 billion virtual worlds — and it will instantly transform 2D content into 3D,” Mr Stefanic said.
Websites such as YouTube can be 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.
The 3D web concept was first conceived by Mr Stefanic 13 years ago and the team has been working steadily towards the launch since.
The ExitReality software comes as a 3.5MB download for Windows that takes about 20 seconds to install.
The software then allows people to search for sites using the built-in search engine, which then instantly renders pages in 3D.
Thanks:news.com.au
