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mappum | 6 years ago

Amazing, this is clearly a glimpse into a future of internet content being less like a document and more like a virtual world.

Suggestion: the enter key should focus the chat box (like a FPS game) so you don't have to hit escape then click on it.

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Narishma|6 years ago

You mean the future as imagined by someone from 1995?

mustacheemperor|6 years ago

I think it's possible that vision is closer to the real future than that sounds at face value. I also initially thought of lawnmower man era breathless predictions for VRML and mockups of the future 3D internet. But this is actually a surprisingly compelling experience. Is it wrong I kind of like that almost everything from the browsing experience of reddit is removed except the titles and the linked content? It's got a pleasing simplicity and the tangible nature of making the internet a physical place is appealing to my primitive brain somehow. Definitely not my new way to browse the web, but surprisingly charming.

seiferteric|6 years ago

Maybe we can get a modern updated VRML spec going.

kalleboo|6 years ago

Yeah I remember trying a demo that was literally trying to do this, just on our Mac Performa 5200 over a 14.4 modem (you had to pre-download the "map"). Even the design is eerily similar.

DC-3|6 years ago

If this is what internet content is going to be like in the future I'm not looking forward to the future.

52-6F-62|6 years ago

The dream of the [late] 90's is alive?

JustSomeNobody|6 years ago

Yeah, looks like project looking glass for the desktop ca. forever ago. The future is here?