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- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10pants? no thanks
- TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Nothing 3D about it. Just scattered browser windows on the inside of a sphere. The Effect? --> Scattered windows just like normal.... but with a perspective tilt.
How is this supposed to enhance browsing? - Bitruder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Sucks that I can't try it on my mac. It REALLY needs XP. So much so that they had to mention it twice.
- Niao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now for a real post from the people who brought you beer milkshake!
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What features do Sphere XP and SphereXplorer need?
1) Render text and CSS objects in 3D, not raster, actually making the pages and content 3D.
2) Draw 2D on 3D, draw 3D on 3D, draw motion on 3D, draw Transition & transparency on 3D quickly. A subset system in OpenGL (For example QuartzExtreme) would do this nicely.
3) Multiplatform. You heard me. I do not want to degrade myself to using Windows unless I absoloutely need to. Problems across platforms are rectified faster in most cases.
4) One-key window spread, window flipping and task-organization, a la Exposé.
5) Window tagging: Allocate different 3D Windows with different tasks so the Exposé bunches them together. Flip your windows over, tag them and write research notes.
6) Interactivity with 3DIzed windows, not just "restored" windows. I want to be able to blog from a 3D Window without having to restore it. I want to make my purchases and browse forums while still being able to view data from other sources.
7) Flawless interactivity with the desktop. What's the point in having to bring up a 2D window to use 3D programs? Layering (a la FrontRow) would be nice with the ability to drag these windows back and forth between each enviroment.
8) Multiple Desktop/monitor support.
9) Better 3D Space organization. Could this mean having a trackball on your cursor for 2D motion and the mouse itself for "looking" around, a la FPS games?
10) The ability to exlude windows from the 3D system and have them layered normally between the 3D windows, always remaining in 2D mode. (Dock, app launchers, etc...)
11) Locking of the "Look around" mode so I can seclude tasks to an area the size of a screen.
12) Other shapes. Why only a sphere?
13) Better bugreport managment.
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Whoa. Is there a Reality distortion field in operation in the vicinity? - Elxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SphereXP was useless...the idea seemed cool, the execution terrible. I'm betting it's the same with this.
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13d GUIs always are useless gimmicks
2d works better, runs better, and isn't bad. - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"No thanks here too. I installed .Net 2.0 once and it screwed up my Media Center PC. Took months to get the hourly error messages to go away."
Well, seeing as how the final version of .NET 2.0 only came out exactly one month (Give or take approx. 1 day) ago, I don't see how that is possible.
If you were stupid enough to install a .NET 2.0 beta on a Media Center machine, you deserved those messages.
Also, for anyone who is installing 2.0, do NOT uninstall 1.1. 1.1 apps are NOT fully compatible with 2.0, and the frameworks were designed to run side by side.
And what the hell is wrong with you people. The .NET Framework is great. I love it. In fact, I'm going to go work on my Shrine to Visual Studio 2005. - LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey on a side-note it reminded me to upgrade to .net 2.0, which I needed to do anyway :p
- noodhoog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, awesome! Now I can spin around in 3D trying to find the webpage I wanted to read and deal with reading it through perspective distortion and switching between full pane and sphere-view modes instead of just clicking the tab for the page I want.
Isn't progress wonderful. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linux Zealots? Anti-Microsoft people? No thanks.
- bradhannahb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For all those saying "It Sucks". If you talked to the author my guess is he would say, "Yeah kinda, but isn't it a neat idea?".
This is an awesome proof of concept (the desktop not the browser). THink outside the box. If people always thought on linear scales we wouldn't have moved as far forward as we have today. Good for SphereXP for beginning to break some common barriers we have in todays computing. - johnxstone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For this 3D movement to work, the way we think about displays would have to change. It would have to be holographic, and actually exist in a 3D space, not just simulated 3D in a 2D space.
OoOOOO OMG OMG OMG PWNZERZ! Look! I can put this window behind this one and it gets smaller the further away it is!.. Sorry sir, the taskbar/dock works just fine. - skyfex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame. As long as the screen is 2-dimensional, a 2-dimensional interface will be the most effective. Sure, you can use 3D effects for fancy unnecessary effects, and it might even provide useful UI hints (example: OS X fast user switching). But it's never effective for structuring/displaying information.
- nachoooo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why don't we think of even more ways to waste memory, cpu and video card power and slow down surfing
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those screenshots give me a headache already. No thanks.
- pynej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok maybe its Windows XP only; Maybe it needs some work… but at least there trying. The current hardware capabilities are incredibly under-utilized. I have a 64bit 3Ghz SPU and 256MB NVIDIA 6800 GT and the hardware normally only gets about 10-20% utilization when working. I mean sure gamming uses the system but for the other 60% of the time the hardware just asks me: “WHY, you’re wasting me”. I run SETI@Home just to feel better about it. I have been waiting for a revolution in UI Technology. I mean sure Microsoft brought us the world of windows, but we have been at the same place, IE 2D interfaces, for years now. We have the hardware I would just like a nice 3D interface, say something based on the Unreal 3D engine with the ability for 2D windows to be rendered, 3D application plug-ins, and a fully dynamic environment, IE the user can add new objects without having to Exit and Code things. This might not be for all users but I would love it. I look at some of the systems they have in Ghost in the Shell, Cyberpunk Anime, and the interfaces and computer systems just make me drool.
- LawrenceDudley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually this should be easy to recreate using Expose technology: Because OS X uses Quartz for rendering, I don't see why it's not possible to use it to tilt windows like this does. Cool idea though.
- Nunya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ADD? No thanks
- Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No thanks here too. I installed .Net 2.0 once and it screwed up my Media Center PC. Took months to get the hourly error messages to go away.
- jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've used SphereXP before, it replaces the normal desktop look. It is like you are basically inside a sphere and you can arrange windows how you like within there. That said it sucked. There were two states a window could be in. Usable and not usable. Let me explain.
If you wanted to move the window, you had to put it in the unusable state. There you could move it around, but you couldn't interact with it. It was like a moveable jpeg, not a webbrowser or whatever.
This 3d webbrowser works the same way. It is ugly, kludgy, and unfunctional. If you want to organize websites that are open, get a tabbed browser. - wavesmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tinfoil hat optional.
- Enigma724, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who diggs this crap?
No digg, and slapped around like a silly bitch. - BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0one of the screenshots has Apple's preview icon in it! WTF?
- antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WHAT, wait... if its "THIS" kind of 3d, there is already stuff for linux where you can change workspace in 3D. no thanks again.
- KickTheBobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sorry, i'm waiting for the 3rd generation of this action:
http://www.io2technology.com/
when it will cost $199 and all the bugs are worked out. - BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look! >:-|
http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots/17.jpg - kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0windows and internet explorer only.
lame.
no digg. - daneon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+03D? No thanks.
- megablue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this browser suck to max.. nothing cool about it
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont like how the windows dont render when inactive...
- greymonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems to be a really cool concept, actually. *nix, and presumably OS X, have virtual desktops. This is a similar concept, just makes it 3D. I just don't see how to make it the shell in XP (and yes, having a beta app as a shell gives me the willies too) but until it becomes a viable shell, there's no practical use for it.
- noodhoog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gorilla?
No thanks, I only smoke baboons.
Baboon?
No thanks, I'm trying to quit. - micromause, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know what... this isn't bad at all! I like the desktop one they have!
- theGREENsuit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"OMG it's not supported by my OS/browser/whatever - no thanks and no digg."
What a bunch of complainers. - Bretso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Make browsing "more easier" by slowing it down!
Make your eyes bleed trying to read blurry text!
digg not! - KarlSage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Internets?
Yes please - thisnameisfake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People stating that they didn't digg it, no digg.
- MikhoohkiM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LMFAO looks kinda cool but my mac can do the same kinda thing all i have to do it hit the F9 key when i have lots of windows open i think i am ganna try it on my widows computer
- zakainsworth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's down...
- geezusfreeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks like a craptastic version of Exposé for OS X.
If you really want warped windows in OS X, just kill the dock while you are minimizing a window. It will freeze in the warped shape and still be fully functional (though it might incorrectly position your mouse clicks).
For the record, I'm not trying to to say that this is practical or useful in any way. - spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh... pretty neat. Inventive.. but I don't think it's practical.
www.downwithrobots.com - LazyBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lmao ... didnt know this got to the front page .... mostly negative comments but whateva sweet!!
- mork571, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"PC with Intel® (Pentium®, Pentium M®, Xeon™) or AMD (Athlon™, Opteron™, Duron™) processor. Processor should be at least 1.0 GHz. 256 MB RAM (512MB recommended)"
no thanks. - TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0windows only :(
but still. . it looks like too much of a hassle to work with. i'll stick with tab browsin. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01. not interactive while moving a window, or while in a 3d space.
2. The selecting of active windows, is sketchy.
3. My wallpaper looked freakin' trippy
4. I was so hoping this would be awesome, 100% letdown - balazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the screenshots look so fake...
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LOL, The site isn't working for me, must be getting a lot of hits. - IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Makes me reach for the Tylenol - no thanks.
- stian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kinda reminds me of Sun's project looking glass.. Useless tho :p
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