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LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass
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."
Here is a link to the video: http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.xml
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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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http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details. xml
Check it out, very cool looking
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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.
I tried something similar for Windows XP some time ago, I didn't really see any advantages over using a normal, 2D interface. Perhaps this 3D interface is different, but the whole thing seems pretty gimicky to me. Kind of like having a 3D interface, just to say you have a 3D interface, not because of any inherent benefits of using it.
Also, is this a window manager akin to Gnome or KDE, or does it run on top of either one? The window decorations and stuff look pretty fugly IMHO.
It looks like looking glass is gonna be slashdotted... heres the ISO link.
http://66.194.210.2/lg3d.iso
Not going very fast... torrent anyone??
Yes. And your OSX apps as well. They're twice as lickable in 3D!!! Even better you can use this over E17 for a thrice lickable win32/linux/osx environment tour de force. K apps have a little trouble sometimes though. Sorry.
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I don't know, ask Apple. Their UI uses the GPU and it has for awhile now.
You bet. These video cards can handle marathon 12 hour gaming sessions, but they're gonna break like matchsticks under the burden of running a WINDOWING system.
If someone can get their hands on it I will mirror it. The University has a 200 megabit pipe to lay to waste, but we're on I2 so edu connections will fly. (I've done this in the past for /.ed things)
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Does anyone get the impression that there is some subtle but real competition going on between Sun and Apple? Apple seems to be moving in on the server/blade market, and Sun is attempting to do cool GUI tricks. I wouldn't mention this but Sun has made so much of Project Looking Glass that it's kind of hard to not wonder if one of their primary targets here is not Apple and the users who are using it as their preferred UNIX OS.
And having their own servers Slashdotted sets a better example?
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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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After reading about 15 requests for a torrent, I got to thinking about the /. effect and bittorrent.
Wouldn't it be a decent idea to set up a torrents.slashdot.org and if possible, before releasing a story with a large 'attachment', set up a torrent for it?
Then again, I don't know how hard this would be logistically, considering that one must obtain a copy of the file ahead of time. However, IMHO I think it's worth a shot.
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is counter-productive.
Managing their rotation axis and depth is more waste of time.
Windows should either be auto-maximized or auto-tiled by the windowing system, with the user and application cooperating to define which parts in the visible output of the application are important to the user at every given moment so that those are automatically displayed to the user. Simple example: Newly created messages about errors or events should not be placed on top of some text I am reading, but on some of the all-gray or all-white area that the screen almost always contains. For this to happen, it must know that text is more important than "dead" areas that contain nothing.
This silliness of attributing physical traits to non-physical entities is counter-productive, even if it is very visually appealing.
Lets let go of the overlapping windows crap and solve the division of screen-space problem in a more intelligent way.
What's wrong with RealOne BBC edition? No spyware there. Also the Linux and Mac OS X version of the standard non-BBC edition seems to lack the advertising you find in the Windows version.
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You're too late - somebody's already downloaded it
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this is not a flame but a real comment, all videos I watched of this gave me nausea, the idea that the background move when my mouse does is very disturbing and not a good idea to locate items on the screen since everything moves not just the foreground or background. Each graphical element is way too big and actually nulify the idea, if you wanted more space out of this realize you don't because every object on the screen is now bigger, turning them aside doesn't provide much more space than windowshading does (the ability on the mac to collapse a window into its title bar), actually it provide less space because of the drop shadow and extra thickness, plus, now, you have too read from up to down instead of left to right, basically it is less usefull and more clunky than windowshade, but since it is a feature of a software that runs on Linux people will go nuts over it and call it usefull 3D even if its nothing but glitz and wizzbang...
Actually, Looking glass is like when you give Windows a resolution the display can't handle, it just shows you part of your desktop and now you have to scroll the desktop to go to each corner, imagine this concept in 3D, you have Looking Glass...
It was kind of a pain to find all of the packages, ( alot of googling =/ ). The following packages were needed and DONT expect to find all of them on sun. Just google the following: jdk-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz java3d-1_3_2-build4-linux-i586.tar.gz java-config-1.2.11.tar.bz2 lg3d-0.5.tar.gz It took a long time to find the packages, but once I did I just used portages emerge to build it. If you want to find the ebuild (build script) google for: lookingglass-bin-0.5.ebuild hopefully this helps out. If I knew there would be all this interest, I would have documented the procedure.
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Some one please mirror this file. Im sure this site will go down fast.
Here is the site that i found serching through the sun forms..
Get it while its up. lg3d.iso.torrent
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