From HTML to 3DMMO – A Roadmap Full of Challenges

WWW is everywhere, embraced by humankind to share information and collaborate. The basic schema of hyperlinked web pages has evolved with revolutionary technologies, altogether with the devices used to access the web, but still carries on strong limitations. Virtual reality and 3D MMO, with their sheer power of representation and interaction, is seen by many as the future of human computer based interaction and collaboration and would, naturally, mix with the WWW model sooner or later. The complexity of the technology, from technical point of view but also with many interdisciplinary issues (medical, ethical, economical, socio-political etc.) would make this transition challenging and exciting. This paper classifies, identifies and proposes basic conceptual solution for these issues - of moving from interconnected web pages to interconnected 3D virtual spaces with massive number of interacting users.