3D Desktop!?

[blubomber]

Sun's new 3D desktop looks interesting. First i have heard of it so i am sorry if it is old news. Here is the link to the website,

http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

Interesting!

[e980238]

Yeah I saw a video demo of this a while back. Its quite interesting. I hope it comes out soon (and for linux).

reminds me of Vaio desktop option. nothing but a resource hog IMHO

[ArcticFox]

Neato - too bad it's by Sun...

[VHockey86]

cool I guess... but I agree with Gz3.
I suppose I dont really see the point, and the fact they were stating that desktop interefaces were designed in the 70 and 80s and now havent been using the current technology seems a little farfetched.
Granted, windows doesnt exactly strain the average 32-128mb video card... but why would you want it to?

Maybe for the casual desktop users or a mac lover it would be a nice feature, but I sure hope all OSs arent that way in the near future.

[e980238]

Well IMO,

For all those peeps out there with the > than 2 GHz cpus, who just go on aim and chat and check email it wouldnt be much of a resource hog. I remember saying to myself after using my IBM 8086 (monochrome), why would anyone want a color monitor? (apple IIe).

[vass0922]

whats funny though is if Windows were to do this with longhorn all the kids would be begging for it to say their 1337

[Detritus]

I do think it looks pretty cool... needs a VR interface though... can anyone remind me which movie had that. 3D environment with a virtual reality interface...

[VHockey86]

there was an episode of the simpsons like that... where Homer is trying to run away from his sister's-in-law and goes into the dimensional portal behind his bookshelf lol

[blubomber]

i do agree with Gz3 in that i would be a pretty big resource hog, but in a few years that wont matter. There will come a day soon when you can get a video card with 1GB of RAM on it and add that to your 64bit CPU, should handle a 3D desktop quite easily. IMO i think it is a good idea.