Looking Glass
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as an example of an innovative, ahead-of-its-time desktop interface.
What it is
A short demo of Sun Microsystems' Looking Glass, a 3D desktop GUI concept for a future operating system.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2010 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites bad_user · 2010-03 · on “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]
Cites exitb · 2022-06 · on “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]
Cites theCrowing · 2022-11 · on “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]