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I made a lot of progress on my 3D Browsing idea built on BabylonJS, so I thought I would check in here to share and get some feedback. As of December, the U.S. patent office approved my conceptual patent for 3D Browsing! It is being issued. I define 3D Browsing as a combination of a 3D Game and browsing the Internet; 3D Buildings are websites Ability to walk between websites with continuous animation. Connected on a grid (mapped) - 3D Community Distributed system - ability to be hosted everywhere on the Internet. I fetch and load 3D Objects as you Walk near and remove them as you Walk away. (I hot-swap what it loaded) My implementation on 3d.walktheweb.com has a BabylonJS foundation. I created a web based 3D CMS (https://3d.walktheweb.com) that uses the building blocks (meshes and csg) to easily build: 3D Buildings - can be a building, bridge, or any rendered 3D assembly, 3D Communities - represents the 3D Scene and everything between the buildings; This is also the map placement of 3D Objects., and 3D Things - The smaller items that you build once and use many times like tables, chairs, trees, etc. I set it up where a 3D Building can be browsed separately, maintained in one place, and yet added to many 3D Communities. I added Action Zones to trigger animation such as opening a sliding or swinging door when you walk near. I have Load Zones that trigger fetching data to render a 3D Building or part of a 3D Building. (Same for 3D Communities and 3D Things). I did some tutorials and videos https://www.walktheweb.com/knowledgebase_category/tutorials/ My latest addition.... WordPress is used by about a third of the websites on the Internet now and WooCommerce has about a third of the Shopping Carts. So I created a WordPress Plugin called WalkTheWeb that lets someone with a WordPress/WooCommerce website add a 3D Store, to show and sell their products, in about 5 minutes. It allows the user to pick a 3D Store Building and 3D Community from templates, name the store, pick a URL, add a walk the web user account, add WooCommerce API keys, and create the site! Check it out.. https://wordpress.org/plugins/walktheweb/ All Free - with option paid premium upgrades like using your own domain name http://3d.YourDomainName.com . I also trademarked http://3d and https://3d to easily identify 3D Browsing websites. All of this using BabylonJS behind it. My plans... as I get time to finish preparing it, I plan to go open source with the WalkTheWeb 3D CMS host. So that everyone can create, maintain, and host their own 3D Websites (3D Buildings, 3D Communities, and 3D Things) in a way that they can be interconnected throughout the Internet. The host program (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript) I created already works between different servers. I just need to globalize some more settings and variables and finishing cleaning the code. One thing that would help make it work smoother, would be if there was a Babylonjs object loader that would clearly separate the user movement from the mesh loading. So that when I need to queue up many meshes on the fly it doesn't cause a lag. (Note, I also turned off my avatars for the moment since they were causing lag. I'll get that functionality back in there soon.) Let me know what you think... all feedback appreciated. Thanks in advance.