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Thursday, 1st April 2010

Google Books Go 3D

A brief post on Inside Google Books informs us that three software engineers have developed a program to view Google Books in 3D. The post says to look for text at the top of a page that says "View in 3D" click and you're just about ready to take a look. Of course you'll need a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses.

We can understand how 3D could be very cool (even fun!) for images (who remembers Viewmaster?) but we will have to see for ourselves how useful for straight black type on a white or off-white page paper Google Books 3D is.

Does reading become easier in 3D? More or less eye strain? We'll get a pair of 3D glasses soon and see for ourselves.

Danny Sullivan had a pair of glasses handy and says that he was "impressed" with the 3D view he saw when looking at a Life magazine cover.

We wouldn't be at all surprised that 3D glasses with the Google logo on them will soon be a popular handout at conferences that Google attends (can you schwag?) and/or something local businesses that advertise with Google can give away.

Btw, both the Google blog post and Danny's article have screen caps

Source: Inside Google Books, SEL


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