Microsoft’s GDI+
Viewing multiple web pages in a 3D deskspace
The 3D Windows Enabler
- Complete integration of 2D and 3D graphics in Windows
- Removes the GDI / Direct3D divide
- Irregular shaped animated windows
- 3D textured, alpha composited
- Potentially due for release in 2000/2001 on Windows 2000
- 3D vendors should be lobbying Microsoft to raise the urgency of GDI+
- and to encourage the use of 3D user interface elements
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- Once 3D is pervasive on the desktopthen it will be needed on the Web...