Feast your eyes and update your brain with news that not only matters, but looks good too (regardless of the latest tragedy occurring on our big blue marble)."Spectra, a news visualization tool, gives consumers an alternate way to navigate msnbc.com in a three dimensional viewing state. Spectra offers comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news coverage, user customization, dynamic browsing and human body interaction. Spectra's alluring design displays msnbc.com's news headlines, fueled by RSS feeds, as colorful, graphic whirlwinds of movement and continually updated live headlines. Users can choose the news categories that interest them most, save stories to Spectra's NewsCollector for later reading, filter their news by keywords and select various viewing states. "
Created using PaperVision 3D.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i//msnbc/Components/spectra/index.html
Lau Ardelean
Strategists & Planners
Comments (2)
User interfaces that employ 3D environments are nothing new -- Irix Buttonfly, anyone? Am I dating myself? -- but they're still so far from the standard 2D desktop paradigm that they feel experimental and novel. This is not always a good thing, but it can certainly be an attention-grabbing thing; and as video games continue to be entrenched in the 3D world (it was not ever thus), there will be more generations of users who don't understand why they should be artificially restricted to visual elements that all sit on more or less the same z-plane....
Posted on May 22, 2008 17:22
User interfaces that employ 3D environments are nothing new -- Irix Buttonfly, anyone? Am I dating myself? -- but they're still so far from the standard 2D desktop paradigm that they feel experimental and novel. This is not always a good thing, but it can certainly be an attention-grabbing thing; and as video games continue to be entrenched in the 3D world (it was not ever thus), there will be more generations of users who don't understand why they should be artificially restricted to visual elements that all sit on more or less the same z-plane....
Posted on May 22, 2008 17:29