3pointD.com

3pointD has been making some appearances in print lately. While the travel guide to the virtual world of Second Life we contributed to in the October issue of Wired won’t be available until October 17, we (that is I, Mark Wallace) do have a long piece on “The Future of You” in PC World magazine, as well as on their Web site. “Think the Net has changed your life?” ask the editors, in the article’s subhed. “Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment–and it will.”

From the article:

For true believers, the metaverse offers ground-floor opportunities for involvement in what will be a world-changing technology, something like the next generation of the World Wide Web: an easy-to-use interface of immense expressive power, through which people can share new kinds of information and interact in new ways. While the metaverse probably won’t replace the Web entirely–after all, it’s easier to read a newspaper on a flat computer screen than in a 3D world –it will expand the Internet’s functionality in a way that could soon revolutionize people’s lives no less radically than the Web has over the last 15 years. A newspaper may be easier to read on today’s Web, but you can’t click through a story to launch a 3D version of the place where the events occurred, and then walk around it in the company of other people who are reading the story at the same time.

What do you think?