SUN Project Looking Glass: Amazing 3D Desktop

[ShadowKnight]

I saw this video today and I believe it is a presentation from SUN's "Project Looking Glass". Now this is the desktop of my dreams!

http://abum.com/files/Movies/3d_desktop.wmv

http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

 

[Danger]

Now this is the desktop of my dreams!

I couldn't see the first link; it just comes up as text. The demo in the second one is great, though.

 

[ShadowKnight]

I just checked, the first link still works, maybe your browser settings or a missing codec? Likely the video you saw in the second link is the same as the first though.

 

[FredGarvin]

That is pretty cool. I wonder if you'll need a Sun workstation to get that kind of functionality. Putting notes on the back of windows and such is pretty sweet.

One thing though...say you're looking at a website and you do annotate a note on the back like was shown...what happens to that note when you close your browser? Do you have to save that page?

 

[ShadowKnight]

I'd assume you have to save it - maybe it saves the note and webpage as a type of bookmark? It is going to function on both Solaris AND LINUX, so I'll actually get to use it since I don't like SUN workstations

It looks like the open source code is actually available now but I doubt my LINUX box has hardware to run this - I need an upgrade first.