DB Query Becomes Browseable In Virtual World

Jani Pirkola writes to tell us that Green Phosphor's new project "Glasshouse" allows users to take database queries or spreadsheets and create 3D representations in a virtual world. Man what I wouldn't give to mash my level 80 death knight up with some of the ugly joins I have run across in the past. "Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world. Glasshouse produces graphs which are avatars of the data itself. We've tailored the system for the use of biotech companies, specifically for drug discovery and development. Dr. David Resuehr, a molecular biologist, recently joined Green Phosphor as our Chief Scientist."

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It's a database query, I know this!

[PotatoFarmer]

But the real question, of course, is whether or not a teenage hacker girl can successfully use this to navigate your data and fix your TPS reports before the velociraptors eat you all.

New excuse

[clarkkent09]

No boss, I'm not playing rpg games at work, I'm working on my quarterly sales report

Earlier generation was "Adventure Shell"

[billstewart]

You are in a small dusty directory called "$HOME".
A stairway called ".." leads up and a stairway called "docs" leads down.
There are files here.
> throw file "foo" at lineprinter daemon.
The lineprinter daemon eats your file and belches.
> Delete file "bar"
What? With your bare hands?

Doug Gwyn's Adventure Shell added a layer of Adventure-like syntactic sugar to the regular Bourne Shell. It wasn't terribly useful, but it was fun for 15 minutes, and since it was written in shell, you could hack on it yourself, and everything worked relatively normally.

If I were using the 3D visual interface, I'd expect my data to be slightly out of focus and to get carried off by pterodactyls if I didn't pay enough attention to everything at once...