232K views · May 22, 2006 · 6:35 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2010–2022
A short demo of Sun Microsystems' Looking Glass, a 3D desktop GUI concept for a future operating system.
Why Hacker News points people here: Referenced as an example of an innovative, ahead-of-its-time desktop interface.
“it was definitely not a clone ... pretty innovative actually”
Demo of Sun's innovative Looking Glass desktop
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: this video
That’s a cool video, I’m also going to leave this here, from around the same time, but a totally different world: this video
“Reminds me of the looking glass [0] demo from sun”
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] this video
