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Project Looking Glass is a free software project under the GPL to create an innovative 3D desktop environment for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Image File history File links A picture of Project Looking Glass File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Looking Glass is programmed in the Java language using the Java 3D system to remain platform independent. Despite the use of graphics acceleration features, the desktop explores the use of 3D windowing capabilities for both existing application programs and ones specifically designed for Looking Glass. Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...
Java 3D is a scene graph based 3D API for the Java platform from Sun Microsystems. ...
One of its most notable features is the creation of reversible windows. This capability can be used for features like allowing the user to write notes and comments on the windows' backs, or displaying application dialogs without risking them being detached from the application they relate to. All windows start by looking like a normal 2D or 2.5D window, but can be manipulated as thin slate-like 3D objects which can be set at any angle or turned completely around by the user. Other features include provision of a panning virtual desktop, icons that reflect the live status of the window they represent and zooming of a window when it receives focus. An example of a graphical user interface in Windows XP, with the My Music window displayed In computing, a window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer...
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History
Looking Glass was first developed by Hideya Kawahara, a Sun programmer who wrote it in his spare time on a small Linux laptop. After demonstrating an early version to Sun executives, he was assigned to it full time with a dedicated team. java.net has an interview with him. It was demonstrated publicly by Jonathan Schwartz at Sun Networks 2003 in San Francisco, and since then has gathered momentum in development Hideya Kawahara is a Sun Microsystems programmer who developed Project Looking Glass in his spare time on a small Linux laptop. ...
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Jonathan Schwartz or Jon Schwartz is the name of several persons: Jonathan I. Schwartz, current President and COO of Sun Microsystems Jonathan Schwartz, a radio disc jockey 2 Southern California musicians of the late 20th century: Jon Schwartz, drummer Jon Schwartz, singer and bass guitarist of The Rainmakers This is...
Similar projects Looking Glass is similar to the "Task Gallery" prototype from Microsoft Research since both seek to exploit three-dimensional objects within some specific interaction constraints. Also, both are meant to work on adapted or enhanced versions of existing desktops rather than re-designing the entire graphical user interface from scratch, an approach taken by many Zooming User Interface projects such as the one created by the late Jef Raskin, or the open source Croquet project based on Squeak. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...
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Example of a ZUI In computing, a Zooming User Interface or ZUI is a graphic environment that allows users to interact with system objects. ...
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Real time, interactive, 3D map of this very same world. ...
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Linux-based systems can use the popular Beryl and Compiz 3D desktop environments, one of their notable features being a three dimensional cubical desktop, to view several X virtual desktops at at time. Beryl is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. ...
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The Demonstration CD selector and player application, Alice. Image File history File links A picture of Project Looking Glass File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links A picture of Project Looking Glass File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
See also - Mezzo - another experimental desktop environment
Mezzo is the desktop environment created by Jason Spisak. ...
External links - Product home
- Development home
- Screenshots of Project Looking Glass at OSDir.com
- LG3D LiveCD
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