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LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass

Posted by timothy on from the slick-interface dept.

remember_beos writes "Sun created Project Looking Glass (LG3D) as a 'proof of concept' not long ago. It is an environment for Linux, like KDE or Gnome, but with some really great 3D functionality. More than just eye-candy, LG3D provides functional use of an extra spatial dimension on your desktop. Now there is a LiveCD for us all to try it out."

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  1. Now My Desktop can be like my apartment by moofdaddy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From what I understand of this project it is very cool. With that extra spatial dimmension you will take what is already a cluttered desktop and make it mess in 3D. Now my computer can look more like my apartnemt.

    In all seriousness though this is really a neat concept. I use a lot of space for my video editing programs. They require a title program, an animator, a sound mixer, a couple of editors, etc. Now this will take my ordinary 15 inch screen and give it dimenssion which will make my life a lot more producitve and a lot oless facinating.

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  2. Re:Worth it? by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Isn't it rough on the video card to have it 3D rendering at any point the the OS is loaded?

    Isn't this what video cards or for? You might as well ask if it's rough on the CPU.

  3. Re:Finally... the wait is over by evanfrey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I installed this about a month ago on gentoo. Its little more then a crappy demo. The one I really want to see, is a linux port of sphereXP http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/, OR i would like to see the metisse project http://insitu.lri.fr/~chapuis/metisse/ see the light of day.

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