Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 10/07/07 22:11

On 2007-10-07, SpaceGirl wrote:
> Here's a great example:
>
> http://dev.getoutsmart.com/os3d/demos/videoroom/
>
> Entire 3d engine, with UI's projected onto the walls and a character
> than can walk around. Under 100Kb, created in Flex, which is Adobe's
> tool for generating Flash on the fly.

Cute.

> Note the working calendar,

For what definition of"working"? It (like everything else) was too
small for me to read.

The navigation is not intuitive. It took longer to figure out how
to move around than it would have to read the information if it had
been sensible presented.

Once I had it (sort of) figured out, it was still too slow to be a
viable means of presenting information.

Perhaps you could come up with something where it _does_ make sense
to use that technique?

> pie 3d charting etc etc etc. See the black
> screen on the wall? That's for steaming video. Mouse over it to see full
> VCR controls and to stream video into the 3d environment. Try doing that
> in JavaScript :D
>
> This entire thing is about the size of 2 or 3 jpegs on a regular web
> site (in kb).

Very slow to load. I could have loaded a full web page with
graphics in less time, even if it was somewhat larger in raw size.


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