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