"All logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules" Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
Project Looking Glass 1.0: A Desktop for the Emerging 3D Web
For the past twenty years, since the Xerox PARC's Alto windowing system, there has not been that much fundamental innovations to our desktop graphical user interface (GUI). The Mac and Windows desktops have just kept us locked in a 2D windowing world. The open-source Project Looking Glass 3D desktop has the potential to have a profound impact on desktop GUI as the Alto did twenty years ago, and to become the desktop GUI technology for the emerging 3D Web. As humans, we are much more acclimated living and functioning in a 3D world. The recent success of 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life is just the beginning of a new immersive 3D user experience on the 3D web. With increased network bandwidth, Gigabytes memory, and 3D hardware graphics capabilities in today PCs driven by video games, the 3D web is a natural evolution of the current 2D web.
Sun is pleased to contribute the next wave of Solaris 10 innovation by
announcing the release and general availability of Project Looking Glass 1.0, an innovative Java 3D windowing system that delivers a full 3D
experimental desktop environment that runs on Solaris 10, but also on Linux and
Windows operating systems (Mac OS support is in the work). This release is the culmination of over three
years of hard work by the Project Looking Glass community. Not only does
it support the full range of innovative Project Looking Glass features,
such as slanted parked windows, sticky notes on the back of windows, 3D
desktop applications, and integrated X11 applications, but it now also
has the industrial strength stability and performance for every day use.
Take it out for a test drive and see the new dimension Project Looking
Glass can add to your desktop experience!
The Project Looking Glass 1.0 GA release can be downloaded from
http://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html
Project Looking Glass takes advantage of the new JDK 1.6 release and
offers many ground-breaking features such as:
+ Slanted parked windows - keep an eye on background windows which take
up less screen space because they are slanted backward.
+ Live icons - View the output of web browsers and media players even
when these applications are iconified.
+ Virtual overview of multiple virtual screens - Manage your
applications more effectively by "zooming out" to see all screens at once.
+ Full integration of X11 windows in the 3D environment.
+ Run Project Looking Glass within GNOME/KDE or as a standalone desktop.
+ Support for the latest Java 3D 1.5 release
+ Full 3D environment and native desktop application support on Solaris
and Linux. The full 3D environment is also supported on Windows, but
without native desktop application integration at this time.
Mac OS support is on the
work.
Also available concurrently with this release is Plethora 1.0, a
NetBeans module suite, which streamlines
Project Looking Glass application development. Plethora allows
developers to create 3D interfaces that combine utility and visual
appeal. The developer is given control over a wide range of Project
Looking Glass GUI features by means of an easy-to-use direct
manipulation interface. Plethora 1.0 can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/auc-plethora
Project Looking Glass 1.0 is yet another example of Sun's continued
commitment and contributions to the open source community. Haven't seen
Project Looking Glass in action yet? Go see one of the most successful
commercial products built on Project Looking Glass - GoMonkey - with
their gesture recognition demo. Also check Project Looking
Glass 3D music player demo.
Posted at 10:47AM Dec 20, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[41]
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