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- 11 May 2004 06:20 GMT

The Project Looking Glass? Jonathan Swartz's demo sure looked cool.
Adi
www.txpinball.com

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RGW - 11 May 2004 19:13 GMT

For me it just looks cool, but doesn't add any real value to windowed
desktop OS. Is there anything useful in seeing the reverse side of
application's window or rotating the movie window in 3d? Besides, probably

> The Project Looking Glass? Jonathan Swartz's demo sure looked cool.
> Adi
> www.txpinball.com

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Peter Ashford - 12 May 2004 01:40 GMT

> For me it just looks cool, but doesn't add any real value to windowed
> desktop OS. Is there anything useful in seeing the reverse side of
> application's window or rotating the movie window in 3d? Besides, probably
> requires an unacceptable amount of resources...

It uses the OpenGL accelleration on you GFX hardware so its using
resources that are otherwise unused during normal desktop usage.

That said, I agree that I can't see a lot of point to it.

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