Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 11th Mar 2003 19:00 UTC, submitted by Mike Janger
Mike Janger writes: "What is Open Croquet? Alan Kay (one of the inventors of Smalltalk, one of the fathers of object oriented programming, conceiver of the laptop computer, inventor of much of the modern windowing GUI, etc.) is working on it. But what IS it? Have you guys looked into it?" I downloaded its 90 MB late last night. It's an 'academic' project featuring a futuristic OS 3D environment running through the Squeak environment on Windows or Mac. It requires a supported 3D accelerator (however, it didn't work with my Voodoo5 in hardware mode so it was painfully slow).
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The creators of Croquet have generously made an alpha version available for download but have promised the first usable beta for mid 2003. So it is premature to talk about its flaws right now.
Why 3D? Easy: you can access far more stuff (even if each is just 2D) then on a 2D desktop. Each "application" can be placed at just the right distance for what you are doing right now (like in 2D zoomable GUIs but without the limitation of having the whole world zoom in/out at the same time).