Hey All,

I couldn't find anything about it here so here goes.

Sparked by Irongeek's post here about 3D gui's I started looking around and found some realy cool stuff..

The SGI interface only works on old irix versions and not much else, so I'll skip that one..


Windows

http://www.3dtop.com/ This makes a real 3D enviroment out of your desktop.. just place the executable on there, double click and go play..
This used to be commercial, but is freeware since the 17th of January 2004.
Please also check out the great plugins they have, here and especialy nr. 5, the 3D-model-import-plug-in... Can also import 3DS files and more.. http://www.3dtop.com/ss.htm

http://rooms3d.com/ This seems to be more of a 3D wallpaper then a real GUI.. 14 day trial version downloadable.. but hey, 3Dtop is way cooler that ROOMS

http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/ A not to interresting (imho, ofcourse) way of storing you windows in the background in 3D (diagonal)..

http://www.2ce.com/ CubicEye is a 3D browser, I've downloaded the demo, but wasn't that impressed (after all them cool, cool linux apps and 3Dtop )

Microsoft is also seems to be trying something with 3D in the Avalon GUI API for Longhorn, although I did hear a lot of rumors of it being delayed or even not implemented at all..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/?...aturesm7-2.asp
http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/l...s/basic3d.aspx
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1154262,00.asp


Linux/unix

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ This is a realy cool looking file browser (look and feel of the JurasicPark one)..

http://www.determinate.net/webdata/seg/tdfsb.html This one is realy, realy, realy, realy friggin' cool and makes full use of multimedia stuff (does need a couple of unusual libs, no binarys, so not for the faint hearted)!!

http://xcruiser.sourceforge.net/ This one is less 3D (no gl) but realy functional.. And great navigation..

There used to be a 3Dwm project, but it is dead afaik ( http://www.3dwm.org/ )

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/ looks promissing, will be trying it later tonight..


Cross platform(?)

https://lg3d.dev.java.net/ Sun's Project Looking glass, very alpha afaik, but great looking screenshots and video's http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/index.html
They also have a collection of links to projects that might be (more or less) of relevance: https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-...hnologies.html



Does anyone know more of these projects ??

How would it be if one were to combine all these projects and make them into one big cross platform system..