The Killer App - 3D Windows?

Making 3D a standard component of the PC

• No-one has made 3D easy and useful to mainstream users
  • 3D has been used as a gimmick, not a tool
  • 3D is a bolt-on to the OS - always trapped within a rectangular window
• A 3D version of Windows could change everything
  • 3D would be integral to the end-user experience
  • Would encourage the rapid development of effective 3D user interfaces
  • 2D applications would quickly look dated
• Consider the “text to Windows” shift
  • In DOS most applications were text-based
  • In Windows applications use the Window/2D paradigm
  • A text application in Windows looks and feels wrong

Research into 3D user interfaces useful to “real people”

Remove the 2D/3DAPI divide in Windows

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