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SphereXP

Spherize your desktop!

http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/
from WinCustomize Forums

SphereXP is a new program that is in beta that is designed to turn your desktop into a 3D space. According to the developer:

The Sphere is theory of an 3D workspace represented by a sphere. The user is exactly in the middle of it. All objects are situated around the user. He can easily turn around and manipulate with them. They can be moved around according to some rules. You can bring them closer to the view port or send them back. The theory can be applied to almost any known program. Starting with the desktop interface. Now continuing with a web browser.

It requires the .NET frame-work 2.0 to use.  I haven't tried it yet.

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
some time ago stardock IRC'ers were throwing around ideas for the future of desktop GUI. My thought was that future GUI's would be 3-dimensional, items layered in the way that they can be pushed forward and back and swung around.

Imagine if all of your apps, start menu, utilities like calculators, and files were all existing at once in a 3d cube that you could move forward and back through? hotkeys would zoom you to each section or you could manually pan around. What if your Word program, with 6 documents open, spun around like a cube as you moved between documents? - all existing at once but only the one side visible at a time. or, you could take the whole cube and alt-drag it to make a clone of it?

we're beginning to get some of these things in a primitive form thanks to widgets and objectdock but its very shallow.

I havn't had the chance to try this yet, but it looks like a step forward in that direction of being unbound by our flat, shallow desktops.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What if stardock research and development came up with their own OS interface built from the ground up to be a 3d-environment?
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've seen websites that do this with FLASH.