From: Pablo Figueroa [pfiguero@cs.ualberta.ca]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 4:13 PM
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: RE: 3D window management

Hi everybody,

> 
> My current project deals with interacting with 2d applications in
> immersive environments.  This may not be the best way to interact in 3d
> but it is the quickest and most convienent.  

I see you are doing a lot of work, but...  I've not totally understand
this idea... Why is important to see 2D applications in a 3D environment?
As you say is more difficult to interact with them, so... why I can't go
to my desktop and use a calculator or netscape? If the problem is task
integration I think we can solve the problem by communication mechanisms
between the 3D world (running in a place with 3D input devices) and a
desktop (with the standard 2D interface).

I would like to hear comments... 

> For example I do not think
> a user would want to write a calculator application just to use it in an
> immersive environment.  It should be easy to pull up an existing
> application such as powerpoint or netscape.  Many of these applications
> are 2d in nature anyways so there is not much benefit in going to full
> 3d in such cases.  I am currently working on a 3d window system which is
> similar to 2d window functionality such as scaling, minimizing, etc. in
> addition to features such as eye following.
> 

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Pablo Figueroa              pfiguero@cs.ualberta.ca
PhD Student                 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~pfiguero
University of Alberta

Relax ... God is in charge  
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