This seems like it was created by someone who cared too much about creating an interface that Hollywood would love even if it has crappy usability. As long as monitors are flat, there is no point in trying to fit a 3d-ish UI onto the OS. You can do pseudo-3D where the 3D aspect is just eye candy like OSX's virtual desktop switcher or Longhorn's system to alt-tab through programs in 3d, but there is little point to adding 3d functionality...for now. Once we figure out how to get 3d glasses (or maybe just 2d HUD glasses) with enough resolution to act as a decent monitor, then it would be worthwhile to have an interface where your workspace was represented as the inside of a sphere with you in it. Each window would be flat (a plane tangent to the virtual sphere) but this would act as if you were surrounded by movable monitors. The entire system could react to head and eye movements to rotate the sphere.
Now if technology could just catch up to my dreams.
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This seems like it was created by someone who cared too much about creating an interface that Hollywood would love even if it has crappy usability. As long as monitors are flat, there is no point in trying to fit a 3d-ish UI onto the OS. You can do pseudo-3D where the 3D aspect is just eye candy like OSX's virtual desktop switcher or Longhorn's system to alt-tab through programs in 3d, but there is little point to adding 3d functionality...for now. Once we figure out how to get 3d glasses (or maybe just 2d HUD glasses) with enough resolution to act as a decent monitor, then it would be worthwhile to have an interface where your workspace was represented as the inside of a sphere with you in it. Each window would be flat (a plane tangent to the virtual sphere) but this would act as if you were surrounded by movable monitors. The entire system could react to head and eye movements to rotate the sphere. Now if technology could just catch up to my dreams.
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