http://www.osnews.com/story/20608/Widgets_Enter_the_Third_Dimension_WolfenQt Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 06:19:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?339251 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339251 That video is incredibly cool - I especially liked when he recompiled the soldier's code while the soldier was standing right next to him Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morph) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?339256 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339256 Yeah, super awesomeness

I just can't wait for a Qt 4.5 based KDE. (I know, I know 4.2 will be "The Answer", but 4.3 with Qt 4.5 will really rock!) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?339266 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339266 Yeah. I noticed that. I think the part I liked most was the recursion where he kept walking through the same portal over and over. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (backdoc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?339312 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339312 Not sure how useful it is but that's beside the point. It's. So. Cool!

Some sort of WolfenDesktopSomething would ease the pain until we get flying cars! Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B12 Simon) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?339326 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339326 Regrettably the Qt Labs server seems to be down at the moment, but it is possible to view the demonstration directly at http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=MXS3xKV-UM0 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (capisce) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?339331 http://www.osnews.com/thread?339331 When I played Doom 3, the (only) thing that impressed me were the seamlessly interactive computer interfaces. In the past, using a computer within a game meant switching out of first person to some sort of mini-game. The Doom 3 engine let you print clear, readable, dynamic text and widgets on a surface and interact with them. The open source game Saurbraten uses something similar for it's main menu. This Qt4 demo blows all that out of the water.

This has applications, not only in games but in any 3D interface where you want to present people with standard widgets without taking them out of context. It could do for applications what Compiz has done for the desktop.

Now if only that stupid song would get out of my head, I'd be happy... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Michael) Comments