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Looking Glass Beta Released

Posted by michael on from the mirror-mirror-on-the-wall dept.

cereal3825 writes "Well Sun Microsystems Looking Glass has been released for testing. The Project can be found here. Though remember this is beta and a quote from the Getting Started Doc says 'This mode is still very much a work in progress. To date, only a few X11 applications run bug-free in this mode.' so dont expect a work of art."

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  1. Cube for Windows by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like Cube for Windows. http://www.infinite-3d.com/

    Nice thing about cube, it looks like its all realtime, so all windows still have animation and updates. Not like those cheap 3d-desktops that just use static images of the appliation.

    A terminal window would still update, a shockwave would still run, a movie would still play.

    Too bad its still beta and no download, the example videos look great.

  2. Re:Wait... by photon317 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not on windows it isn't :)

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  3. Fantastic! by Phoe6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am not a Java Programmer (yet) and its just second time I was abt to use a Java Program on Linux.
    Just followed their instructions for getting the Looking Glass up and Running and Yo!. That was a Fantastic Experience. Check out my Snapshots captured using KSnapShot tool when the looking Glass was running over the TWM Window Manager. This was on a Dell Optiplex Gx260 having onboard Intel845 Video Card running Fedora Core2. When it really gets full fledged, believe me, all the desktops is going to be like playing a 3D game. Whole new features and a good extension to the present desktops. So Sun, I forgot what the business-men are saying, Kudos for your Technology!!!

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