emoko
Posted on January 8th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I caught wind of emoko today via Twitter user Cole Geissinger. The key thing that stands out about emoko is how it was built:
emoko is a web browser just like FireFox or Internet Explorer, with one big difference - emoko is built using video game technology.
The browser apparently renders pages in a “3D world,” and users’ avatars in that 3D world can interact (via text and voice chat, or drawing on the page) with one another, as long as they are visiting the same web page. The version at the time of writing is version 0.9.6225, and it is the second major update according to the browser’s website.
The following video demonstrates emoko’s vision of how the browser works:
Now that we’ve seen the video, I have to admit that I’ve actually installed and played around with emoko a bit. Unfortunately, my experience wasn’t anything like what you see in the video. The browser felt more like a Java app to me than it did a video game. Even on my fairly powerful computer, things felt a bit slow and jittery. If it’s possible to tilt web pages, create avatars and find other users in emoko, I couldn’t figure out how to do it. The best I could do is get a feel for the interface, which in itself is a bit different than what is offered up in the video:
Don’t let me be the judge, though. If you’re into trying new things, give emoko a spin yourself and definitely let me know if you have a different experience than I did. Regardless, it’s good to see people thinking outside of the box with web browser development. This one may just be a little too far out of the box for my liking.
Tags: 3D, Avatars, emoko, Minor Players, Reviews, Screenshots, Video Games, Videos
3 Responses
Using
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7 on 
Windows XP
interesting concept but can’t see it taking off in that form. So the ’social 2.0′ addicted people can browse sites with crappy avatars looking at the same stuff. Ermmm, what happens when two people (avatars) want to actually ‘touch’ a common site at once? Someone needs to take control and then the experience is hardly ’social’ but more dictatorial.
Using
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 on 
Windows NT
It’s easy to get a feel for it actually. They haven’t optimized the code, it’s still in alpha, so it’ll be slow right now for sure.
I’m personally a virtual reality enthusiast, so I found it really easy to get used to.
Using
Opera 8.01 on 
Windows XP
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