FYI - There are some demonstration videos available at the links below.
Some think its pretty cool, others think its OSX, others may think its a
complete waste of time. ;)
Quite a few system requirements to actually do anything with this.
Project Looking Glass Open Source
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Sun Microsystems is contributing Project Looking Glass, based on
Java(tm) technology, to the open source community. Project Looking Glass
is an exploration project to bring innovative 3D features to the desktop
environment. The desktop interface will offer an intuitive, new 3D
environment to interact with desktop applications featuring window
transparency, rotation, zoom, multiple desktop workspaces and
miniaturization.Project Looking Glass offers a platform to realize far
richer and more entertaining user experience for existing and new
applications in 2D or 3D. The technology enables developers to build
highly visual 3D desktops and applications that will run on Linux
systems such as Sun's Java Desktop System. The Solaris(tm) environment
will be supported in near future.
Interested in using the Project Looking Glass? The project is in very
early stages and a commercial version is not available yet. Please go to
http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=630517381995340456:1088531213990 to
keep up to date on our progress.
Why Open Source?
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Project Looking Glass is in its infancy, and we'd like to explore lots
of ideas and possibilities. We're releasing the Project Looking Glass
code to the whole community to explore every aspect of the technology
rather than restricting access to a privileged few. We believe this open
development is an excellent model to pursue this exciting and vast
opportunity. So, your involvement is eagerly anticipated. We believe
new dimension of developer innovation by making Sun's cutting edge
technology available at Sun's 3D Desktop Technology Open Source Project
on java.net.
This is all available at:
http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=630517381995340456:1088531213971
What's the licensing model?
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There are three license choices for developers interested in creating
applications using Project Looking Glass.
For developers who are interested in reviewing, revising, and
redistributing the source code as part of their own application, Project
Looking Glass has been submitted as an Open Source project on java.net
under the GNU Public License, or GPL.
For developers who are interested in developing an application on top of
the existing Project Looking Glass platform without reviewing and/or
altering the code base, there is a binary version of the current state
of the project available for download under a traditional Binary Code
License. This is also available on java.net.
Finally, for developers or organizations interested in other uses or
revising the source code but wish to keep their implementation and
related application proprietary, please contact Sun at
lg3d_license@dev.java.net.
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You can see Hideya Kawahara on stage with Jonathan Schwartz and Scott
McNealy of Sun Microsystems demonstrating the Project Looking Glass
technology and announcing the open source project at
http://enews.sun.com/CTServlet?id=630517381995340456:1088531214001
(select View Webcast).
If you have any questions, please send them to:
project-looking-glass@sun.com
Sun's Project Looking Glass Team
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