Looking Glass
VinkoCited 3× on HN, 2010–2022
demo · general · 2010–2022 on HN
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.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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
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
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