!!!!3d Os X!!!!

That looks sweet!
It'll eat up system resources, but it just looks so damn kool! Can't wait to get home a give it a go.

 

With this thread, it makes it the 3rd or 4th one on the subject. Have you used it? It doesn't really add all that much to you computer and probably won't be useful. You'll load it, play with it and realize that its much easier using the Finder and revert back after a certain amount of time inversely proportional to your maturity/intelligence level......

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Its also something that was done on the SGI machines in the 90s, its nothing special. And sure its a possible future, but like I mentioned in the other thread, we have years before it becomes truly useful.

I used it for 10 minutes and uninstalled it. If you last a week of constant use I'll be surprised.

But don't get me wrong, I do think its cool, its just not efficient or particularly effective.

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Do a search on 3DOSX, its actually mentioned several times, but the first was about March or so.

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http://forums.macrumors.com/search....id=45353&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

my dualie and I agree......there is no point and its not even that cool.

The icons arent even truly 3D...yeah, it looks kinda neat...but only kinda. Its not really that attractive looking. Its just "3D"....whatever.


I lasted maybe 2 minutes and its off my computer for good now.

Its got potential, but the design isnt that hot and its not very functional at all.

 

this software isn't going to get anywhere without active development tho...the cvs repository looks like it hasnt been updated in about 5 months.

seems more like a proof of concept app than anything else.

 

I'd like to give it a whirl, but I'm still on OS 9 for freakin Reaktor *bashes stuff*.

I'm sure its not as good as the finder, but it looks like its worth 5 minutes of my time.

 

I downloaded this a while back and tried to use it, but I couldn't figure it out. How do you get anything to appear?

Since then I would have to try to try to use it.

But I think given what the program does, which really isn't anything productive, you would have to be a top dog junkie to use it for a long time.

 

Looks cool, but what is the point?

 

God that program ****s me off... I used it a while back and it looked really cool but you just can use it effectively

 

ThreesyDoesit

Hmmm looks like the system portrayed in the screenshots has about 20 files and folders... what about the other 99.9999 % of us? A 3D circle of a thousand files.... hmmm ... might be interesting...

 

you've still probably used it more than most people, I'm quite amazed actually that you're sticking with it. Its a total waste of time - except maybe showing people who are easily impressed......

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useless...

People do this every few years. I guess that they have a lot of time to waste.

My favorite example of a totally useless use of 3-D was "Turbo Gopher VR". For those of you who remember gopher, imagine gopher presented with this whole 3-d look, cheesy bitmaps pasted onto the "walls" of the gopher link "polygons". And get this... there were plans for 3-d spatial stereo sound so that you could make your link make noise and hear it get louder/softer/ear-to-ear as you "walked" around the environment.

Stupid, but somebody took the time to do it and probably thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.

 

If you remember the first Jurassic Park movie, one of the end sequences shows the girl 'hacking' into an SGI to lock the doors (or something) and save the day. She was using this 3D navigation system.

 

I remember something about a web search engine technology that used the 3d look of this software. I saw it on ZDTV one day when I was playing sick. A French company designed it I think. It looked pretty neat, not sure about how functional it would be. If anyone can figure out what I'm trying to describe, let me know.

cheers!
-john

 

Looks to me like someone is trying to make a justifiable use of Quartz. Looks good to me. I'll have to try it when I get home.

 

It's an interesting toy, a fun project (and it was around before Quartz), but there are some real problems with making a real 3D interface that doesn't violate nearly every principle of good user interface design. Believe me, nontechnical people have trouble understanding 2D window layering ("It erased my document!" -- "No, you just switched to another program."). You try explaining to them that they can't find what they're looking for because it's "behind" them, and their heads are going to explode. Then there are the people who just don't have good spatial sense. I know several people who fall into that category, and computer generated 3D environments really confuse them.

 

3d internet could get very interesting. I would like to see where
that goes more then anything.