Breaking the paradigm...

Bob's Bumptop post is very enlightening--and thanks for exposing me to it B.
Unlike most 3-D desktops, which just throw a third axis onto the usual WIMP interface and label it "revolutionary" ...



... Bumptop actually re-thinks how a third dimension would let us create NEW ways of interacting with information, rather than just tweaking the current metaphors. Nothing against Looking Glass--which has its own merits--but it seems too often developers get caught up in the "if I can do it, I will do it" syndrome and produce things simply because they are challenging technical exercises.

Then again, I felt the same way about all those repetitive ray-tracing glass globes shown at SIGGRAPH every year and we ended up with "The Perfect Woman."

MURRYC