3D desktop + Internet is for pr0n

Looking like useless eyecandy whicll I'll be turning off after playing with it for 5 minutes.

I hardly see any use to turn my browser/editor 45 degrees and not be able to read the text proprly at the 'far' end
 
Seems like a little funny gimmick at this point, but nothing useful.
I mean, come on, what performance do you waste on this?
Maybe someday it'll become an environment of avail, but today it's just a technical gadget for people with too large CPUs.

By the way: It isn't.
 
Great, so even operating systems will be 3D and requiring God knows what overpriced hardware.

Ah, I remember days when games were in text mode and people drooled over CGA graphics. Good times.
 
Ok, my sound is off, does this thing have notepad on the backside of every window?

While it's nice eye candy, I have to agree with the general sentiment here that it probably sucks up too much CPU power to be worth some eye candy with no real use.
 
calculon000 said:
Ok, my sound is off, does this thing have notepad on the backside of every window?

While it's nice eye candy, I have to agree with the general sentiment here that it probably sucks up too much CPU power to be worth some eye candy with no real use.
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Not unless they find a way to optimize the interface. But..it's a little 'weird' to be able to rotate your browser in 2D. :?
 
I will only be impressed with 3d interfaces when the actual medium I'm looking at is 3 dimensional. Hooray, I can rotate something that is still on a flat screen.

Great.
 
I guess you wouldn't REALLY be "free from the shackles of an old environment", to quote the video, with a 2D monitor.
 
RE: 3D Graphical OS

That's useless for the vast majority of users. It's a neat eyecandy feature, but it has little use for the average user or even for most advanced or "power users".

It's also not particularily new. This kind of stuff has been developed for ages, mostly so because nobody ever came up with a real purpose for it and thus it never made it into a final product.

A better idea is the URL-bound 3D cyberspace based on the efforts of VRML and other projects -- I don't remember the name but it was covered in an issue of the Eurohacker e-zine.

Being able to stack desktop items and rotate the view may be useful to some degree, but for applications this is mostly pointless -- multi-desktop environments are complex and user unfriendly enough, the last thing we need is another layer of complexity to navigate between simulatneously executed applications.

Also I do not see any benefit for browsing or managing porn in this, so I agree with D3.


RE: That google link.

Google decided that the Google Videos feature is not available to German users based on my location rather than my browser configuration (which prefers English language content -- although Google blissfully ignores this as well). Thus I cannot view whatever you linked to.

If you intended to link to a particular video, please do so, otherwise ... well, use less world domination bound services please.

All Google would tell me is that the video is called "The internet is for pr0n" and that it's hosted by a Russian website.

It also has weird thumbnails that have broken JavaScript links.
 
Ashmo said:
A better idea is the URL-bound 3D cyberspace based on the efforts of VRML and other projects -- I don't remember the name but it was covered in an issue of the Eurohacker e-zine.
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I once played a game that was just like this, only the websites weren't real, just maps in the game. I wish I could remember the name of the game... :(

I even started this thread to find it, but to no avail.
 
Ashmo, perhaps this will work better (not your optimal solution, but there is the off chance it will work and we will be done with it).
 
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