3D essays
What would a 3D essay look or feel like? The "video essay" is a format, but that's really more like a performed/spoken essay with picture and video over it. I'm curious what it could be if we keep reading prose as the core mode.
Here's a prototype where scrolling brings you in instead of down. Instead of feeling like you're just reading a wall of text, it feels like you're moving forward into a series of spaces.
This breaks the essay into paragraph blocks, where you only see one at a time, which works something like focus mode (and I suppose there could be a way where you could preview the paragraphs behind and ahead). There's opportunity for each paragraph to have unique color, imagery, a distinct vibe to match the content. Additionally, each paragraph can have portals to jet out from this essay into different ones, making it something like a choose your own adventure.
Is anything gained from this? Or is it just a novelty? Best case, it's a new medium to bring prose into the short-form video era; it's much less intimidating to be presented with a single screen of text than a whole wall of it.