Comments on: Apple is developing a 3D Mac UI http://www.applegazette.com/mac/apple-is-developing-a-3d-mac-ui/ Apple Gazette - An Apple Blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:30:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric http://www.applegazette.com/mac/apple-is-developing-a-3d-mac-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-89934 Eric Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:44 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=4439#comment-89934 Hey Michael -- I saw this a couple days ago, but just haven't been able to get to a computer (other than my iPhone) to post this as a comment... Sun Microsystems already developed something like this. I remember seeing the full-length vid on Sun's website a number of years ago, but right now the only thing I can find is a YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZcJOZC38iQ I wonder if Sun/Apple teamed up or if Apple is again stepping on another companies toes.... Looks VERY familiar to Sun came up with a number of years ago... Hey Michael –

I saw this a couple days ago, but just haven’t been able to get to a computer (other than my iPhone) to post this as a comment…

Sun Microsystems already developed something like this. I remember seeing the full-length vid on Sun’s website a number of years ago, but right now the only thing I can find is a YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZcJOZC38iQ

I wonder if Sun/Apple teamed up or if Apple is again stepping on another companies toes…. Looks VERY familiar to Sun came up with a number of years ago…

]]> By: Dan http://www.applegazette.com/mac/apple-is-developing-a-3d-mac-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-89905 Dan Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:45:42 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=4439#comment-89905 I agree - it could look a little cluttered. But, imagine if your screen was touch sensitive and could respond to all ten of your fingers on-screen, the mouse then becomes an abstraction. If I can use my fingers to move things around my 'desk' and pop them to 'walls' just with a simple drag, it becomes a pretty useable interface. From what I've seen from Microsoft concerning their multi-touch desks, there hasn't been any interface innovation, just touch input with some fancy animation. This patent seems to go a few steps further in providing an actual framework to a touch based computer interface. To quote Steve Jobs from the iPhone introduction: "We have invented a new technology called multi-touch. It works like magic, you don't need a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!" My hunch is that they're simply working on a way to get this technology over to the desktop computer - but yeah - I agree, I definitely wouldn't want to use that interface with a mouse :) I agree – it could look a little cluttered. But, imagine if your screen was touch sensitive and could respond to all ten of your fingers on-screen, the mouse then becomes an abstraction. If I can use my fingers to move things around my ‘desk’ and pop them to ‘walls’ just with a simple drag, it becomes a pretty useable interface. From what I’ve seen from Microsoft concerning their multi-touch desks, there hasn’t been any interface innovation, just touch input with some fancy animation. This patent seems to go a few steps further in providing an actual framework to a touch based computer interface.

To quote Steve Jobs from the iPhone introduction:

“We have invented a new technology called multi-touch. It works like magic, you don’t need a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!”

My hunch is that they’re simply working on a way to get this technology over to the desktop computer – but yeah – I agree, I definitely wouldn’t want to use that interface with a mouse :)

]]> By: Olternaut http://www.applegazette.com/mac/apple-is-developing-a-3d-mac-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-89903 Olternaut Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:24:03 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=4439#comment-89903 Your 40? But your not 40 in the year 1950. Your 40 in the freakin year 2008 soon to be 2009!! The two dimensional GUI is yesterday's news. You can continue to use the traditional mouse with the traditional GUI in that nursing home of yours if you want to. How the hell old do you think Steve Jobs is anyway? Like it or not....welcome to the future dude! Your 40? But your not 40 in the year 1950. Your 40 in the freakin year 2008 soon to be 2009!!
The two dimensional GUI is yesterday’s news. You can continue to use the traditional mouse with the traditional GUI in that nursing home of yours if you want to.
How the hell old do you think Steve Jobs is anyway?

Like it or not….welcome to the future dude!

]]> By: Andy http://www.applegazette.com/mac/apple-is-developing-a-3d-mac-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-89901 Andy Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:20 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/?p=4439#comment-89901 hell no, I am 40 years old and I want to click with my mouse to open my apps and not using a 3d hyperspace suit. hell no, I am 40 years old and I want to click with my mouse to open my apps and not using a 3d hyperspace suit.

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