document: 2lip : the step towards the web3d The World Wide Web allows users to create and publish a variety of resources , including multimedia ones . Most of the contemporary best practices for designing web interfaces , however , do not take into account the 3D techniques . In this paper we present a novel approach for designing interactive web applications -- 2-Layer Interface Paradigm ( 2LIP ) . The background layer of the 2LIP-type user interface is a 3D scene , which a user can not directly interact with . The foreground layer is HTML content . Only taking an action on this content ( e.g. pressing a hyperlink , scrolling a page ) can affect the 3D scene . We introduce a reference implementation of 2LIP : Copernicus - The Virtual 3D Encyclopedia , which shows one of the potential paths of the evolution of Wikipedia towards Web 3.0 . Based on the evaluation of Copernicus we prove that designing web interfaces according to 2LIP provides users a better browsing experience , without harming the interaction .
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