MS Research has been working on this for some time. They dropped some cool demos to us once in a while mainly showing rendering when moving around.

IMHO...with the current hardware state I just don't see it. It's hard to "reach around" objects that completely cover others. The metaphor is just too radical. Plus, the CPU cycling that would be going on for a 3D UI is just off the meter. Maybe sometime after 2010?


>Yeah, 3-D desktops could be the wave of the future. Great concept... implementations are a little shakey at the moment though.
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>http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots.htm
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>http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.xml
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>http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
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>...I've actually tried the XPSphere out. Works well, but it doesn't update the images of forms placed on the sphere in real time. Still was fun to test drive. The looking glass project by Sun has some pretty impressive videos.
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>>I think it it is cool:
>>http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_10018.html