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:
It requires the .NET frame-work 2.0 to use. I haven't tried it yet.
 |
|
Page 2 of 2 | |
|
|---|
Frederick Parkes
Reply #22 Friday, November 25, 2005 2:07 PM
Reply #22 Friday, November 25, 2005 2:07 PM
It doesnt like triple LCD screen desktops "sniffle" other than that neat idea that needs work (but its still beta so gonna keep a close eye on it)
Diafragma
Reply #23 Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:53 AM
Reply #23 Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:53 AM
bladiedie, have you tried it yet... I was alwasy curious about that project, it looked awesome from the demo....
Corky_O
Reply #24 Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:31 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:31 PM
Looking glass looks great.....
Too bad I have all Windows based applications, or I would install tonight......
The SphereXP project looks a bit too dizzy to me. I think I would opt for a few monitors, a surround desk, and swivel chair with built in platter for wireless keyboard and mouse instead.......if I had the money. 
DesignCaddy
Reply #27 Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:09 PM
Reply #27 Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:09 PM
some time ago stardock IRC'ers were throwing around ideas for the future of desktop GUI. My thought was that future GUI's would be 3-dimensional, items layered in the way that they can be pushed forward and back and swung around.
Imagine if all of your apps, start menu, utilities like calculators, and files were all existing at once in a 3d cube that you could move forward and back through? hotkeys would zoom you to each section or you could manually pan around. What if your Word program, with 6 documents open, spun around like a cube as you moved between documents? - all existing at once but only the one side visible at a time. or, you could take the whole cube and alt-drag it to make a clone of it?
we're beginning to get some of these things in a primitive form thanks to widgets and objectdock but its very shallow.
I havn't had the chance to try this yet, but it looks like a step forward in that direction of being unbound by our flat, shallow desktops.
Imagine if all of your apps, start menu, utilities like calculators, and files were all existing at once in a 3d cube that you could move forward and back through? hotkeys would zoom you to each section or you could manually pan around. What if your Word program, with 6 documents open, spun around like a cube as you moved between documents? - all existing at once but only the one side visible at a time. or, you could take the whole cube and alt-drag it to make a clone of it?
we're beginning to get some of these things in a primitive form thanks to widgets and objectdock but its very shallow.
I havn't had the chance to try this yet, but it looks like a step forward in that direction of being unbound by our flat, shallow desktops.
DesignCaddy
Reply #28 Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:11 PM
Reply #28 Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:11 PM
What if stardock research and development came up with their own OS interface built from the ground up to be a 3d-environment? 
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
|
|
Page 2 of 2 | |
|
|---|
Reply #21 Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:01 PM