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Looking Glass
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A short demo of Sun Microsystems' Looking Glass, a 3D desktop GUI concept for a future operating system.
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Referenced as an example of an innovative, ahead-of-its-time desktop interface.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Project Looking Glass, while certainly inspired by current UIs, it was definitely not a clone ... pretty innovative actually, although it wasn't usable yet. You can take a look at a demo here: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗That’s a cool video, I’m also going to leave this here, from around the same time, but a totally different world: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Reminds me of the looking glass [0] demo from sun for the app itself there is sadly not much to see yet. closed beta. [0] [VIDEO]
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