On 3 Aug 2009, at 03:18, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Dave Koelmeyer wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> I'm purely a passive bystander, so this is just sheer curiousity, >> but where did Project Looking Glass fit into this? > > It was a research project that never had enough resources to develop > into a complete desktop or supported product. It was cool demoware, > but never really progressed beyond that.
IMHO, it never really had a great deal of potential anyway... people have been trying to make 3D desktops on 2D displays with 2D input devices for literally decades now, and they've pretty much all failed to be any more useful than what we had already. If we really want to move from 2D to 3D interactions, then displays and input devices are really going to have to evolve at the same time as the desktop itself. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
