That’s right everyone, 3D. A company named Vivaty is working to develop an online platform for 3D content on Facebook. This could mean some cool things for the future of our online content.

If you’re like me (known to gravitate towards the x-box on weekends) then you remember when Super Mario 64 came out. If don’t remember, it was the first popular video game to use 3-D space. The Mario character could walk around and interact with the video game in full 3 dimensional space. Pretty cool. Well since then video games have made some pretty amazing strides, and so has the technology on the internet. As bandwidth increases and computers can handle larger file sizes and more media rich content, we are starting to see some pretty cool stuff happening on the frontier of the world wide web. One of those is 3D or 3 dimensional web space. Imagine looking at a website not like a piece of paper, but like you are looking into a room. Much like playing a video game, you can navigate through the site to pickup or interact with different things. Pretty cool.
For many of us, this is a really different and strange way to think about something we are so used to seeing in only one way, but humor me and lets do some brainstorming.

Imagine your website. Now imagine what it would be like to organize it much like you would an empty room. Imagine yourself as an interior designer placing items in 3 dimensional space. What does this do to the internet we are so used to? Maybe instead of a header we now have a desk. Instead of primary navigation, we now have an open space with different objects you can move to and interact with. Instead of links, we have doors or portals, “or something really cool that I don’t even know about” (old school). The possibilities are endless!!!

So chew on that this week as you go to that really crappy page that you need to see every day for work and you really hate. Sometime soon it might look like that favorite restaurant or park you visit on the weekends.

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