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The press is talking about
CubicEye™...
The
CubicEye™ platform has generated enormous interest by analysts, press and
technologists. Here's a sampling of what they've think of the platform, based
on their own review of the CubicEye Browser applet.
The
CubicEye™ Platform is designed to allow software developers to create new
interfaces and functions for their content and applications, using the patented
cubic framework. It can be individual cubes or multiple cubes, taking advantage
of not only the surfaces of the cubes, but the space inside as well, for the
display and manipulation of content and data. |
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Even budget PCs have extraordinary 3D graphic
capabilities...(the) CubicEye web browser provides a hint of what future 3D
environments could look like now that 3D power is widely
available.
Perhaps the only truly innovative product announced a this
week's undersized uneventful Comdex Spring show... |
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Do you drum your fingers when you search? Have you, in
fact, ever tried to surf on two computers at once? If so you'll probably
appreciate (the) CubicEye browser.
Each cube face you see has five
additional sides, each of which can display a page. Cube rotation and selection
are controlled through navigational buttons. It's a clever way to work around
the limited area available even on large computer screens. |
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"A lot of information comes at you at once, and what we
did was we came up with an organizational structure that allows you to take the
information overload and organize it in a way that people can relate to it in a
very simplistic fashion", Rosen said.
"Users gain versatility
because they no longer have to navigate from page to page in a linear fashion",
Rosen said, taking the CubicEye for a spin on his office computer to show how
he could flip from screen to screen without retracing his path. |
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| "Our main mission is to help people deal with
information overload, and organize them into a form that they can easily
address and remember," said Chief Executive Mike Rosen. "This is the visual
interface for the Information Age. It puts the consumer in
control." |
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Rosen, an architect by training, said he got the idea
for (CubicEye)... during a project to build a vritual reality model of the city
of Philadelphia. The model included all of the city's streets, building, parks
and bridges in an interactive, 3D environment - in other words, a real-life
version of the popular SimCity game.
Quick navigation through a giant
database of information is the core technology for (CubicEye), which Rosen
originally developed during the Philadelphia project.
(CubicEye) will offer its technology to
corporations. The idea is to let workers deal more quickly with the plethora of
information they must field daily. |
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| The most interesting software introduced during Comdex
this year may be a browser. Not Netscape 6, which is strictly a yawn, but the
(CubicEye) browser that's being previewed to press and analysts. |
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"When I was designing this, I knew the room metaphor -
with walls, a floor and ceiling - would be very easy to navigate and
intuitive," (Rosen) said. "It's very architectural."
"It concentrates
information," Rosen said. "It's a much more efficient way of looking at
information."
Rosen showed an iterative cube - where each side is a
cube, and each of that cube's sides is a cube, and so on, with hundreds of
pages in all.
Jerry Smith, chief technology officer at SCT, which
develops e-commerce systems, said he looked at a number of 3D browsers,
including MIT's blocks approach, but thought (CubicEye) was natural and easy to
use.
"It's easy to navigate," he said. "This is the first one that gives
you a flow. It has a coolness to it and when you've worked with it over time,
you really change your behavior. Instead of opening multiple browsers, you have
six surfaces to work with."
"I think fundamentally it's
going to revolutionize the way people use browsers today," he added. "It's the
first step toward telepresence." |
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