Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Mar 2007 19:37 UTC, submitted by Hiev

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2005-07-23
Well, the use of OpenGL on the desktop wich we are seeing now is just an early echo of what has already existed. But from now on, there are a multitude of potential possibilities of concepts wich could emerge from that. First and foremost are the fancy effects, but this could really take off until we're using desktop computers in whole other ways. How I don't know, but I'm sure there's gonna be a development here, and that it's gonna bring it beyond the ordinary desktop metaphor.
Take a look at these, for example:
http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ