Cosma / Communication / Knowledge / Navigation / Worlds / Web
A key goal of Cosma is to provide 3D interfaces to enable spatial Knowledge Navigation of the Knowledge Resources on this and other sites.
You can learn more about this on the Worlds Challenge page.
Web Worlds are the newest type of 3D interface that you will find on Cosma.
The pages of Cosma have links to many thousands of the best resources on the Web.
Immersive 3D and 360° experiences are among the most valuable types of resources, and so there are links to thousands of them distributed across the hundreds of pages on the Web site.
Unfortunately, links to amazing experiences blend in with more mundane links on each page (Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Open Courseware, JSTOR etc.).
Web Worlds provide visual links to bring attention to from ten to twenty of the the most engaging and immersive 3D and 360° experiences related to a given subject.
There are many Web Worlds distributed across the pages on the Cosma Web site.
The Web World below is a special one with links to many of the others.
You can use it to find hundreds of immersive 3D and 360° experiences to explore!
Click on the objects to see 3D and 360° experiences, and click doorways to go to other Web Worlds which also feature objects and doorways with links to 3D and 360° experiences.
If you can’t see it, or it isn’t working, you can also see it directly on Kuula.
Notice that Web Worlds are different than the earlier Toy Worlds in two ways.
First, Toy Worlds were made by capturing 360° images of “real world” physical spaces made with toys, while Web Worlds are made by creating spaces in the virtual world SecondLife, capturing 360° images of those spaces, and then uploading the 360° image to the 360° image sharing service called Kuula in order to overlay links to the many great 360° and 3D immersive experiences on the Web.
Second, Toy Worlds are “usually” more focused on providing visual links to pages on Cosma while Web Worlds are more focused on linking to other creator’s 3D and 360° experiences.
You can learn a lot more about Web Worlds in the post Hike, Wander & Walk-in the Web!