Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Dec 2006 21:20 UTC, submitted by mkools
Project Looking Glass has hit the magical 1.0 mark: "This release is the culmination of 3 years of work, starting with Hideya san who originally conceived of a bold, new type of window system, through the initial shake down of the proof-of-concept demo by an internal Sun community, followed by the open sourcing of the technology, which generated such enormous interest that it brought down the java.net servers several times. From that point on many people from around the globe have contributed to the project; contributing to the core, contributing applications, performing testing, writing and translating documentation, etc. The project owners (Hideya, Paul, Krishna and myself) are very grateful for all of the great contributions we have received from you, the LG community."
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"""Project Looking Glass, on the other hand, is a true 3D interface"""
Question: Why do we need a true 3D interface?
I've yet to see XGL/AIGLX/Looking Glass do anything that couldn't be done better in pure 2D.
Looking Glass demos look just like XGL demos. Except they are not quite as glitzy.
And all the 3D desktops look useless to me. (As in "no better than what we already have.") Essentially the UI equivalent of the dot.com bubble.
Just my opinion.