Do you find reading news boring? How about adding some flare to it? Well, MSNBC is trying exactly that.
MSNBC has launched new visual news reader called Spectra that makes reading news a lot more entertaining.
It’s a flash based reader that shows news in a 3D fashion. You can choose different channels (e.g top news, international, US, Iraq..etc) and add to your reading queue.
Some how the idea of the daily news flying around my computer screen like a flock of birds does not make reading the news any more or less interesting. I wonder what the meeting that this idea was dreamed up in sounded like..
Wonder what value add it has for the readers. Typical Microsoft stuff :)
Ajith
it looks like what hongkiat giving out on his contest…
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/flashloaded-3dwall-interactive-image-presentation-free-giveaway/
very cool effect
I would not want to put this in to read my news.Thank you very much.
I have just browse spectra and find it so colorful..
A new era of news viewing are created….
This is very nice!
Its really cool, the effects adds spice and fun to the reading.
This was made using the Papervision 3D engine, not just Flash.
Okay, so maybe it’s not the most functional way of showing the news but it’s still an interesting experiment that may help to generate ideas for new interfaces.