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I have beta tested ViOS, as well as tried UBUBU (I pronounce it OO BOO
BOO, despite what they say) and Antarcti.ca. The flaw that I see in all
of them is that the scale of the geography is all wrong. Would you
really go across the street to learn about the company there, not to
mention flying to Australia to check out kangaroos?
Early attempts at 3D browsing involved geography on the scale of the
classical Greeks' mnemonic system: Associate various ideas with the
features of a house. They would use, among other things, links connected
to pictures hanging on the wall in a hallway. I submit that the 3D
acquisition of information in the real world involves going to the
library and walking up and down the aisles, or wandering through a
bookstore, or talking to the professors at a university, all on a much
smaller and more intimate scale than vast cities arrayed in cyberspace.
I suspect there's more than a little bit of overconfidence in these
planetary monstrosities. What do you folks think?
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Steve Franklin
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From: "martin dodge" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 07:03 AM
Subject: news article "Internet sites offer their visitors real sense of
place."
> Hi, this article may be of interest
> martin
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> USA Today: Internet sites offer their visitors real sense of place.
>
> Several start-ups and tech researchers are betting the Internet is a
> place, and the future is in treating it that way. In recent weeks,
I've
> talked with two such companies, ViOS and Antarcti.ca. There are lots
of
> others, including start-up UBUBU and researchers in corporate labs...
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney/2001-04-11-maney.htm
>
>
> (Thanks to Tomalak's Realm at http://www.tomalak.org for the pointer
to
> this story)
>
>
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> martin dodge
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> cyber geography research
> centre for advanced spatial analysis, university college london
> gower street, london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdom
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> email: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 (0)207 679 1782
>
> http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk http://www.cybergeography.org
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> http://www.mappingcyberspace.com
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