SphereXP

Spherize your desktop!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

SphereXP is a new program that is in beta that is designed to turn your desktop into a 3D space. According to the developer:

The Sphere is theory of an 3D workspace represented by a sphere. The user is exactly in the middle of it. All objects are situated around the user. He can easily turn around and manipulate with them. They can be moved around according to some rules. You can bring them closer to the view port or send them back. The theory can be applied to almost any known program. Starting with the desktop interface. Now continuing with a web browser.

It requires the .NET frame-work 2.0 to use.  I haven't tried it yet.

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patrick24
Reply #1 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:46 PM
Totally cool!

scorpio-logic
Reply #2 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:47 PM
WHOA! Maybe something like this implemented into WindowFX?

sixshot
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:51 PM
I tried this way back when I first saw it on NT Compatible. It's an interesting app but I found the usability to be unfitting for my needs. Maybe I'm still fond of the Gallery UI that Microsoft's R&D team created. But this one didn't seem all that interesting. Maybe that's changed in the recent releases but who knows. It's a different way to visualize your windows but the drawback is obviously the limitation in GDI+, of which your drawing foundation is based on ancient technology with hacked up legacy code to exploit what little feature your 3D card has.

I dunno about trying it again. If they still rely on using file-based settings (ie. not registry-based), then maybe I'll give it another shot to see what's different this time around.

scorpio-logic
Reply #4 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:01 PM
It don't like WB. Needs work. But an interesting idea.

RPGFX
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:32 PM
seems like it would take monumental amounts of resources. Neat idea though.

ExodusCrow
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:05 PM
I gave this a try a while back while there were still in early beta. It's a neat idea, just doesn't work well as a desktop replacement. Navigation wasn't that great even with a little globe telling you where you were in the sphere. Doesn't take a lot of resources, which is good.

A great toy for about 5 minutes until you realize 2d is good.

the_great_deceiver
Reply #7 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:23 PM
3d on 2d is still 2d. unless this software comes with special glasses. it's a toy, I agree

Bash2cool
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:39 PM
HOT

ShadowXKin
Reply #9 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:03 PM
interesting...but not really useful
maybe for cool desktop presentations ill use it...
but its really nothing except for the fact that its a 3d desktop...
keep up the great work anyway

Diafragma
Reply #10 Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:40 AM
I got dizzy from trying it.... the background picture looks out of focus. Not very useful

KBV
Reply #11 Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:24 AM
It's a novelty. Tried it and found it useless. Fun idea though.

PintSki
Reply #12 Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:17 AM
new you say ?? whaaa

Pogo-
Reply #13 Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:02 PM
one of those ideas where u make it for yourself and say your a jenious

Tycho7
Reply #14 Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:46 PM
Interesting idea. Does it work with Desktop X and all those programs?

It might be cool to have an Expose-like program for Windows, but I think a spherical desktop would be too weird.

DrJBHL
Reply #15 Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:05 PM
This is not a new program...it first surfaced about two years ago...was writted by a couple of Israeli fellows, if I remember correctly.

Dr.J.

Swansquash
Reply #16 Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:20 PM
As a WindowBlinds 5 user, I have to say that I was really disappointed in the funky way my desktop folders appeared, when I opened them. My AeroGlass effect was gone... sort of... about 30% of the effect showed up when I moused over the open folder, and still there seemed to be a duplicate window open behind it, that was skinned with the Windows Classic skin...

Of course, once the folders were moved around in the sphere, they seemed to have their own default graphics assigned to them, and they looked okay when I reopened 'em using the Sphere images. So I'd call this an interesting idea at this point, but really ugly to use until it's more developed to be compatible with WB. For all I know, though, for non-WindowBlinds users it might be a godsend.

One thing came out of this, though... I've got .Net Framework 2 installed on my machine now...

BeLGaRaTh67
Reply #17 Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:45 PM
Wasn't something like this announced about 2 years ago? Only difference I see now is it needs .net 2

ExodusCrow
Reply #18 Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:07 PM
It might be cool to have an Expose-like program for Windows


There is one called WinPLOSION.

jfp3
Reply #19 Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:37 PM
Tried this a year ago....it keeps getting improved so maybe there is some hope with it for the future. Nifty Thang it is.

MoSsbr
Reply #20 Thursday, November 24, 2005 4:53 PM

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