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Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-can-use-it dept.

Cypherus writes "I came across a link for a 3d desktop environment. "The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such a icons and applications. Check the videos and screenshots to get the idea.""

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  1. I used it last week... by Jack+William+Bell · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used it last week for a day and was quite impressed. It isn't perfect, some major bugs, some missing features and a slow memory leak that requires you to stop and start it every hour or so. But very usable.

    What I thought was most cool about it was that it is very close to something I have been saying I wanted for a long time, except that I want to rotate the 'world' around me using a foot controller. In any case Sphere might just be pointing the way to a new GUI paradigm we can use for real work, something other than the 'desktop'.

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  2. Why not try some of the alternatives by women · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why not investigate some of the alternatives while the site is ./ed.
    http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/
    Sun's attempt
    http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Steed/3ddesktop/

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