3pointD.com

Linda Zimmer over at Business Communicators of SL flags what sounds like a very cool application: a downloadable 3D browser called 3B that allows you take existing 2D Web content and make an avatarized 3D space out of it that others can visit. From the site: “3B allows you take any web sites or photos and place them in a personalized 3D space, your 3B village. You can use MySpace, Hi5 or Bebo pages or photos you’ve loaded onto Flickr, Photobucket or any other web service.” Cool. I’m really looking forward to checking this out, as a MySpace-to-Second Life importer is one of the things on my personal technology wish list. 3B sounds like not much more than a way to paste flat Web pages onto the walls of a 3D environment, but it raises some interesting possibilities. It also remains to be seen whether this kind of thing has the community-building and self-expressive power of a place like Second Life. But what interests me about it is that it could be an easier way to get Web users into 3D online spaces. And as we know, getting a critical mass of people into such environments often leads to truly fascinating things that the developers hadn’t envisioned. More reports to come.