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3D Windowing System Developed Using Wayland, Oculus Rift

Posted by timothy on from the mind-the-vertigo dept.

An anonymous reader writes Developed as part of a university master thesis is this "truly 3D" windowing system environment. The 3D desktop was developed as a Qt Wayland compositor and output to an Oculus Rift display and then controlled using a high-precision Razer mouse. Overall, it's interesting research for bringing 2D windows into a 3D workspace using Wayland and the Oculus Rift. The code is hosted as the Motorcar Compositor. A video demonstration is on YouTube.

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  1. What's old is new again by Dynedain · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everything cycles around.

    This tech existed 10-15 years ago. There were "popular" options for IRIX, and common in CAVE setups.

    I attended SIGGRAPH in 2000 or so on an exhibitor pass for a company that was producing a 3D window manager to do exactly this.

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  2. Apple patent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think Apple was granted a patent on something similar to this recently (apple wins patents on 3d technology in desktop user interfaces).

    http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-wins-patents-on-3d-technology-in-desktop-user-interfaces/