{"id":129,"date":"2004-04-01T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedmedialab.wordpress.com\/2004\/04\/01\/108083184901003568\/"},"modified":"2004-04-01T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T10:04:09","slug":"108083184901003568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Through the Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Through the Looking Glass<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you&#8217;re working on at the same time? What if you could tack a note to yourself right on the Web page you&#8217;re viewing? What if your CD or movie database became a 3D jukebox, where titles were joined with images to make finding what you want easier than ever? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This teaser leads further into an ongoing development of a new way to imagine your desktop. Where one isn&#8217;t just confined to a 2D plane.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of thing my senior design studio was &#8216;fooling&#8217; around with back at <a href=\"http:\/\/ncsudesign.org\/content\/index.cfm\/mode\/1\/fuseaction\/page\/filename\/industrial_design.html\" target=\"_blank\">NCSU College of Design <\/a>(1996).<\/p>\n<p>In a cooperative classroom that combined computer science and design senior\/graduate level students we we able to do some serious &#8216;goofing off&#8217; with different methods of interface and interaction design. We developed concepts dealing with layered\/transparent information, data blobs, information spheres, image cubes and desktops within desktops. This included literal 3D representions of working environments (cube-land on acid). We even had a chance to work with Futurist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydmead.com\" target=\"_blank\">Syd Mead <\/a>and Author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitematrix.net\/columns\/sterling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Sterling<\/a> on a side project about the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/expose\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple <\/a>and nVidia took some incremental steps in developing new concepts to working within the desktop environment but still didn&#8217;t quite push the boundaries. This sort of environment can be &#8216;faked&#8217; in a Flash MX environment (using 2d panes carrying other SWF movies) but still doesn&#8217;t quite fit the model &#8211; unless Flash MX moves into the desktop operating system, which is quite possible since they are targeting their system as a kickin&#8217; development tool that&#8217;s been positioned against M$ IDEs (but I digress).<\/p>\n<p>Sun has been quiet lately, with only a few press releases since the initial launch but it&#8217;s exciting to see a large company seriously sinking in some capital (both money and intellectual) in developing a new way to interact with documents and software.  Something this different, not to mention difficult, can only happen from the ground up at the OS level and not as a third party window dressing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.sun.com\/software\/looking_glass\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the demonstration here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Looking Glass What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you&#8217;re working on at the same time? What if you could tack a note to yourself right on the Web page you&#8217;re viewing? 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