Ahh, niches... Interreality/Terangreal/VOS are all parts of an opensource project, right? Would you mind if I made a side-project/spinoff-project, using the same technology? Maybe, if you're giving up on the name "Terangreal", I could name it that (even though I was fairly attached to VOS). ;P
Forgive me for this last outburst... But I do believe there's a huge niche for "the product", the way I envision it. And there are relatively few competitors. Please watch the following; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk (Xgl) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI (AiGlx) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGs9qJNYufE (Desk3d) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g (Looking Glass) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXOjihfjT8 (True3d*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclFCjXc5Ls (SphereXP - 25-30$) http://www.3dna.net/products/gallery.htm (3dna - 30$) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8JGgGt_Ycc (Spectasia 60-130$) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_7JJUEc9c (Aero - 100-400$) Keep in mind, that I've been thinking of a system that incorporates all of these design ideas, before I knew about ANY of them. This was back in 1998. Over the years, I eventually started hearing about projects like 3dna, Desk3d, Looking Glass, Aero... You see where technology is headed? I knew it before I heard of any of them! I still think it would be awesome if, instead of having to have a code base for Redhat, Debian, SuSE, Mandriva, Gentoo, Vista, and all the other x86 platforms, (and maybe even MacOS), all we'd need would be two; One distribution for x86 and one for PPC. With an entire OS dedicated to 3d effects, we already have an engine built in, making 3d games and applications easier to create for the end-programmer. The end-programmer may also choose to use their own 3d engine, by using the same functions and routines that our 3d engine already calls. If you don't think that 3d is necessarily useful for an icon-based desktop, then please watch this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ (Bumptop - Pen-based file management) And for an idea of an easy way to create 3d objects; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2H35SlLmUA (Teddy - Pen-based object creation) _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list [email protected] http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
