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    Looking Glass

    Vinko

    3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2010–2022

    YouTube

    6:35 · 232K views · May 22, 2006

    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

    1. @bad_userMar 2010· in “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

      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

      CitesView on HN
    2. @theCrowingNov 2022· in “Lazy – A Capture Tool for Knowledge”

      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

      CitesView on HN
    3. @exitbJun 2022· in “Wayfire is a Wayland compositor based on wlroots”

      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

      CitesView on HN