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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.

Referenced as an example of an innovative, ahead-of-its-time desktop interface.

GUI, HCI & interface historyOperating systems & kernels

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@bad_user2010 · in “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

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]

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@exitb2022 · in “Wayfire is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots”

That’s a cool video, I’m also going to leave this here, from around the same time, but a totally different world: [VIDEO]

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@theCrowing2022 · in “Lazy – A Capture Tool for Knowledge”

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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