Thursday, November 23, 2006

Lecture 4 - Tutorial Task

3D chatting is very different to chatting like msn or yahoo. 3D chatting require more memory usage and hence sometimes slows the computer down due to excessive memory usage by a single program. Programs like msn and yahoo are quite simple and donot use much memory which makes them more faster. It might be different for faster computers but for home computer memory utilisation is an issue. Too many things like plug-in's, software requirements, tools have to be considered before using the program.

Since they require more memory, more speed, the slow computer might not get the right message on time, which can be quite confusing. Sometimes online communication is used by some businessmen as a meduim of communication and them getting the right information on time is a very important thing. As far I think 3D chat programs should only be limited to once pleasure and not used for business or any other important communcation.

I've never used a 3D chatting program but according to my research a person has an option of showing him as a character(the program allows you to design on your own character) which sometimes can be misleading to other people.

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