Access To Rich Content
By organizing virtual cities and specialized regions with particular themes in a very large contiguous simulated space, ViOS users could discover relevant in-world 3D resources, web sites, and like-minded people that they might never have found through conventional web browser-based World Wide Web exploration. ViOS users could travel directly to cities/areas of interest through special 3D portals, maps, or by using keyword spatial navigation. Objects within the ViOS world were usually pointers to World Wide Web-deliverable resources. When users of the system interacted with such objects, they would initiate the load and caching of an associated webpage that was viewable via an instance of the Internet Explorer web browser. In this way, the ViOS GUI could be used as a way of accessing the World Wide Web as well as being a means by which Internet bookmarks could be organized as shared objects within a massively scaled multiuser online space.
The ViOS world was initially seeded with 420 cities and communities that appeared as navigable 3D locations. Each of these was populated with approximately 15,000 visually rich objects representing what at the time were the best and most trafficked sites of the World Wide Web. It is important to note that all existing web sites (as well as other Internet-deliverable resources) were available at some place on the vast ViOS landscape, but their location may not have been close to these initial communities.
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