Project Looking Glass: a 3D environment by Sun Microsystems
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 by paxx | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you're working on at the same time? What if you could tack a note to yourself right on the Web page you're viewing? What if your CD or movie database became a 3D jukebox, where titles were joined with images to make finding what you want easier than ever?
Take a look at this...
Visit the project's homepage: http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/index.html or download the video demo: http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.html A large download, but totally worth it. So cool. 
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| Nope. To new-fangled. |
I have to agree...
So far, it's just more eye-candy IMHO.
I mean, who wants to put notes on the backs of web pages - seriously? It would seem more practical to me to be able to annotate files in a list as part of the filesystem - or like Opera which lets you annotate bookmarks with text descriptions.
Searching CD's by their picture? What a waste of computing power! What's wrong with a list?
Nothing in that demo seems like a revolution in GUI design.
Reply #11 Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:44 PM
Transparency, albiet a 'cool feature' , makes it difficlt to see the text
Of course, it would be nice to annotate the back of *cough* some *cough* web sites
Reply #12 Saturday, March 27, 2004 5:22 AM
Would be great for touch screens IMHO.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:48 AM
I'd be curious where they are on this. It seems like the demo was from some time last year.
Of course, Stardock could probably expand on WindowFX and do all this and more.