Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 18:30 UTC
Rethinking the desktop metaphor, or even improving it in any significant way, is a daunting task, and few dare to take the risk. The end result is that the desktop metaphor that we use today barely changed over the years - which is quite unique for the computing industry, as normally, things change very rapidly.
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I think truly 3D UI will only come with truly usable VR. By VR, I don't mean putting on cheesey goggle and gloves or 2nd Life crap; I mean sticking a thin wire into a socet behind my ear (today, a wifi connection of some sort but I like the old monofiliment deck wired interface idea).
Anything I've seen 3D on a screen so far has been a novelty item. Grape comes closest too usable 3D viewed through a purely 2D surface. It feels like a slimmed down version of whatever that last 3D "move files as big icon previews" desktop was; the one with the group objects lasoo and a few other gimicky "3D desktop space" tricks like watching icons bounce offthe endges when thrown across the surface.
When we can fully imerse ourselves in a digitally created 5 senses environment the 2D UI will be reduced to very limited use where applicable while the 3D UI will simply be the natural existance of anyone jacked in. That's my random guess at it all due to too much Cyberpunk in my past anyhow.