YooWalk.com – Walk Through the 3D Internet
We’ve only surfed the web until today by navigating through web pages from one site to the other. Ever wondered what is it like to walk through the web? Just stroll through the Internet?
With YooWalk you can enable your virtual self to walk in the Internet. YooWalk is a 3D view of the web where you as a user can walk your avatar through various websites. Yes actually!
A lot of popular websites have been depicted as 3D blocks on a road side with an entry door to each one of them. It appears as if those blocks are buildings and you can move around your avatar or a virtual character and walk into any site that you like. The sites have been grouped and are shown on a 3D map as if you were strolling througha city. An experience worth having, just to see how else you can view the Internet.
It reminds me of Second Life and Google Lively though. Yoo Walk also has 3D chat rooms similar to those of Lively. On the screen you can see other virtual characters and you can walk to them have a chat and network with them. You can call it the browser version of second life if you want but it has a unique offering for different kind of visitors. Like the sites have been grouped together based on their geography and category. So can walk around a block of sites according to your interest, whether sports, news or arts etc. There are a lot of empty blocks (real estate) on the website. I think they intend to sell that off for advertisements.
The business/revenue model of YooWalk appears simple and delicious. There is so much that can be done on this website but that is only if it’s a hit. It appears to be exciting but it still needs to go a long way ahead. When you enter a building (site) then browsing through that site isn’t very easy and you can only view select content. By the way Google is calling Lively off and they’ll be putting it down on 31st December 2008.
May be there is something for YooWalk people to learn that this whole 3D Internet just aint working out good for business.
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YooWalk.com – 3D Internet…
We’ve only surfed the web until today by navigating through web pages from one site to the other. Ever wondered what is it like to walk through the web? Just stroll through the Internet?
With YooWalk you can enable your virtual self to walk in the I…