WOW. Now this will be a stunning desktop environment if it ever comes to fruition! Take a look at what Steve Jobs and company have planned for their OS X operating system: A "Multi-Dimensional Desktop". And does it ever look stunning, even in black and white drawings - you can just imagine what that would look like with the Mac colors going on. Mmmm Mm.Here is some of what AppleInsider had to say about the Patent Office filings:
"Generally speaking, the filings depict a 3D interface by which side walls, a top, and a floor all protrude from a back surface that resembles today's two-dimensional Mac OS X desktop. A few examples also suggest a radical departure from traditional interface design by which the Mac OS X menubar would be removed from the top of the screen and thrown into a stack or floating element.
Apple portrays an exemplary multidimensional desktop environment that includes a back surface like today's traditional two-dimensional desktop environment, which includes the Mac OS X menu bar and desktop surface. Protruding from this surface would be one or more side surfaces capable of housing object receptacles, including a "floor" that would contain the Mac OS X Dock and icon stacks positioned in the background. Other side surfaces would intersect with the floor, forming a three-dimensional box, though Apple says a "top" surface may not always be necessary.
The 3D icon stacks in the multi-dimensional Finder would fan outwards as they do in today's version of the Mac OS X but would not necessarily be tied to a linear path. They could instead fan in a three-dimensional arch towards a central region of the display, producing the perception of depth."Be sure to see all the diagrams here!
Isn't that breathtaking? Thanks to Tim for sending me that heads up! Man, I love Apple enough already, but with the continued innovation that they churn out seemingly without effort - get me some of that stock NOW. :-P stereoscopic 3D desktops. Why isn't Microsoft doing this? Maybe they are...
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